Mango Framework

Continuing the move of internal server stuffs to external hosts, the Mango domain is now hosted on DreamHost. I looked into DreamHost, BlueHost and HostGator. Linnode, etc. They all have their pros and cons. For me, I couldn’t ignore the $50 off for DreamHost. That means I’m paying $60 a year to host most of my stuff. That will pay for itself the first month I downgrade my DSL service.

In the end, the mission critical bits are on GitHub in the event that DreamHost has another round of outages.

I’m slowly trying to move things off of my home computers and on to servers in the outside world, preferably servers that someone else has to backup and maintain. As such, the Mango source has moved to using GitHub. It’s git. It’s free. And it’s backed up.

http://github.com/claco/mango/

The old repository is still available for now. I’ll try and keep it up to date, but the sooner you move to using GitHub, the better.

Just because I can, the Mango test coverage reports are now online just like the Handel test coverage reports are.

Current coverage: 100%

I’m starting over. Not completely over mind you. Just a fresh start in terms of source control and focus. At some point, the amount of tinkering on the various parts of Mango has left me unable to properly focus on things like tests, documentation and glue-bits. In an effort to re-jump start the process, I’m cleaning out trunk and (re)working my way back up from the bottom layer by layer. Hopefully with smaller things to focus on, I can maintain more consistent progress.

These layers consist of:

• Database Schema
• Providers
• Catalyst Base Classes
• Catalyst Application (Base+generated app)
• Design/Style
• Web 2.0

The start things off, I have made a branch of the current work and cleaned out trunk. Tomorrow I’ll move the database schema and providers code back in from the branch and start working on tests/pod for them.

First goal: Complete tests and documentation for the current providers.

Welcome to the home of Mango, an ecommerce solution built on Perl, Catalyst, Handel and DBIx::Class. Mango is currently in the development stage. You can find the latest version of the source in the subversion repository.