[Koha-devel] Koha Catalyst Work

[Travis Elliott Davis]

slef,

Both good thoughts.  On the issue of performance you are correct catalyst is big.  I am not sure if there would be a performance loss or not.  My inclination would be to say about the same but that is just my intuition.  Having used Catalyst several years ago as well there were some things that hurt its performance that I feel have been remedied.  I would be open to a way to do performance testing between the two and see how it comes out.  Obviously the problem here is that you can't really compare them side by side since only one is built.  I feel like you could do some smaller unit test on functions to see how they perform.

You are also correct with the comment about Catalyst and Debian packages.  There is a stable version of Catalyst that still works in packages but there are modules that aren't compatible with it (namely CatalystX).  I have had good luck compiling catalyst from CPAN.

Anyway, thanks for checking it out and providing some feedback!  

A little update, I'm afraid my github repo is a little unstable at the moment while I get everything moved from a package install to a compiled install.

On Jul 26, 2012, at 12:46 PM, MJ Ray wrote:

> Elliott Davis wrote:
>> https://github.com/libsysguy/koha-catalyst.  It is obviously not complete
>> but it will run and give you a basic idea of the code structure.  Let me
>> know your thoughts and ideas, I'm excited to hear what you have to say
> 
> Probably a good idea!  My two concerns would be:
> 
> 1. performance - last time I tried something similar with a simpler
> app (years ago), catalyst was big and not particularly fast, but maybe
> now Koha is complicated enough that it wouldn't be a big hit and would
> make work much faster;
> 
> 2. there's currently a challenge for Catalyst in debian (and maybe
> Ubuntu as a consequence).  You can read more about it at
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.perl/10351 - maybe
> that needs some help too.
> 
> Thanks,
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