[perldoc2-developers] General Questions

[Robert 'p. S. <rs...@47...>]

Good evening again, everyone;

If I understood Joergen correctly at the last Hamburg.pm meeting, he's
going to write up a specification on what the application should be doing=
,
on the workflows and what the overall ideas are. So this is just a bunch
of general questions I'd like to bring into discussion.

* Service or Application?

Is the application itself thought as a service to the perl community,
hosted probably under the *.perl.org domain space, or should we focus on
building a standalone-capable application and tools to work with it? As a
simple service focused on translation of the perl documentation, it is
probably easier to handle, but the standalone package way would also have
some advantages. Especially that other projects can use this technology
for providing a translation facility for their documentations. I'd think
of things like Plagger, Catalyst, DBIx-Class and other projects with a
potentially large international target group. This might also have some
implications on the spec though, as a method to refactor larger parts of
the docbase might be helpful, even if perldoc itself is not really
affected by this phenomenon.

* Which Platform?

This question is rather web-development-wise. Personally, I'm pretty much
favoring Catalyst these days. But I might be the only one accustomed to
this framework in here. As I see it, there would be various possibilities
(Catalyst, Maypole, Jifty, CGI-Application, plain CGI, and probably
others). So, what's the plan in this regards, and how do you guys see
this?


Ok, it's been just two questions, but maybe someone else has something to
add :)

gr.,
Robert

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