[Dancer-users] Strawberry Perl and Dancer packaged together

[David Precious]

On Friday 27 May 2011 14:49:28 Gabor Szabo wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:30 AM, damien krotkine <dkrotkine at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > Task::Kensho includes sqlite I think, but I'm not sure you have mysql dbi
> > driver in your list. You might want to include it, as well as postgresql.
> > Also, mongodb would be great. All these things are most useful with
> > Dancer Dancer::Plugin::FlashMessage maybe ? :)
> > Try::Tiny is also a good candidate.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions.
> 
> DBD::SQLite, DBD::Pg and DBD::mysql were alerady part of Strawberry Perl.
> Try::Tiny is part of Task::Kensho
> I added the FlashMessage and also MongoDB,
> though I guess if you really want to play with it you'll have to also
> install the MongoDB server.

I'm biased of course, but I think Dancer::Plugin::Database would be a 
worthwhile inclusion, too - should add no extra dependencies, and it's good to 
encourage people to avoid reinventing the wheel when it comes to handling 
their database connections.

(Having argued for my own module, it could also make sense to include 
Dancer::Plugin::DBIC for similar reasons, although that will have altogether 
heavier dependencies via DBIx::Class (unless that's shipped with Strawberry 
already, in which case it's no issue).)

Kudos for working on this, by the way; it'll make it easier for Windows users 
to get a decent Perl and Dancer setup running with no effort at all :)

Cheers

Dave P

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