Out of curiosity and completely neutral with respect to the topic, is:

   ./bin/app.pl

so much different from:

   plackup bin/app.pl

in your experience? I was inclined not use use plackup in the first place, but after some time I understood that I had no good reason. On the other hand, it seems that sometimes there are good reasons to use it, like in this case.

From what I understand in stuff I read around, you're more or less forced to go with Plack when you're in production, so why striving to avoid it?

Cheers,

    Flavio.