I think it's interesting that you didn't mention Mojolicious, which has your dependency problem from Dancer sorted, and is also a quite modern rethinking of HTTP on Perl. None of the old cruft from the 90s.

I think you are wrong there. Sebastian actually cares about the web. http://mojolicio.us/ was designed by the author of the framework himself, and as you can see it's not your typical Perl project home page. He even drew all the artwork.

It's very pretty. Look on the homepage to see an example.

I recommend using perlbrew (http://perlbrew.pl) to install the latest version of perl in your home directory. Then you can just drop the sudo. You *could* also just install this thing using the normal cpan shell that ships with perl, cpanmin.us is just a convenience to make things easier.

With regards to the https - You might notice that http://cpanmin.us redirect to - https://raw.github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus/master/cpanm

I've been a long time user of this framework, and I'm very excited about the 1.0 release. I believe Mojolicious will see some major adoption in 2011. The 1.0 release is a promise of stability that web developer can build upon.

What's so cool about a 4 digit id?