Re: ANNOUNCE: Mason 2

--- On Tue, 2/22/11, Jonathan Swartz <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm pleased to
> announce Mason 2, the first major version of Mason in ten
> years:
> 
>    http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Mason
> 
> Mason is a templating framework for generating web pages
> and other dynamic content. Mason 2 has been rearchitected
> and reimplemented from the ground up, to take advantage of
> modern Perl technique and to correct long-standing feature
> and syntax inadequacies. More information at
> 
>    http://www.openswartz.com/2011/02/21/announcing-mason-2/

I hope my inability to access that is because it's got a slashdotting and generating a lot of interest.

> While Mason 1 was fairly mod_perl centric, Mason 2 connects
> with mod_perl (and other backends) via PSGI/Plack:
> 
>     http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Mason::Plugin::PSGIHandler
> 
> Give it a try and post feedback here or on the Mason
> mailing list (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users).

A quicky - for someone who never used Mason 1, is it best to just pretend Mason 1 didn't exist and jump into Mason 2?

Phil