[Maypole] The Future of Maypole

[Max Maischein]

>>>>Incidentally, as the youngest kid on the block, it might be a good idea
>>>>for Maypole to check out what some of the more mature MVC frameworks for
>>>>Perl have done about things like abstraction and declarative
>>>>programming.
>>>
>>>[...] if you do this,
>>>then you become very tempted to go mad and redesign your framework to steal
>>>what you think are the cool features of everyone else's frameworks. Not
>>>necessarily for any technical merit, either, just to keep up with the
>>>neighbours.
>>>
Personally, I've looked at Maypole with much interest since its earliest 
beginnings, and while I haven't been overwhelmed with quality in certain 
locations, the overall quality of Maypole was really good, at least for 
the use I see in Maypole - a quickly prototypeable frontend for a 
database. The documentation quality has increased and with 2.0 it is 
good, at least good enough for me.

What worries me is the Big Data Driven Approach currently taken, as the 
configuration "language" (for example YAML) is now a fourth language 
involved - there is only so much abstraction a toolkit can take, and I 
don't need much abstraction in Maypole once I sold my soul to TT 
(reluctant) and CDBI (willing).

> I'd love to see Maypole settle down. Maypole needs to be more defined. 
Yes. I'd like to see the current (Maypole 1.7 / 2.0) Maypole to be 
accepted in more places as a potent seed for web applications. But for 
that to evolve, Maypole itself must mature, and it can't mature if the 
whole infrastructure changes every 5 months - if I wanted that, I'd 
program Java...

Maypole has many ugly warts that need some Best Practices to evolve, 
like the best way of more flexible path management without involving 
mod_rewrite and CGI parameters, and it needs to expand horizontally, for 
example with a good, maintainable and low-overhead permission system, or 
handling of images and basic user/login features. But all of this needs 
a code base that does not change its outside interface.

My 2 cents,
-max