Re^8: What is the Perl Web Framework du jour?

[perrin]

It certainly seems from reading the above that Jesse was, in 2001 at least, advocating putting the entire codebase, or nearly so, for an application in a single file.

He's arguing for putting all of the controller code for one application into a single file. I can't see anything to disagree with about that. He doesn't say "jam all of your applications for a whole site into one file" nor does he say "put all the database code and templates into one file." I understand what you're objecting to, but it isn't a view supported by Jesse or any of the current CGI::Application developers.

[mr_mischief]

I think I see where we were talking past one another. I consider most of the sites I design to be one big, integrated application with several related modules. If you have a bunch of separate smaller applications on the same site, I can get behind that idea. You might consider what I'm talking about as a large application as several independent but related applications that happen to use the same classes, templates, user records, application data, and session information across them.