[Catalyst-dev] PPM Catalyst/Manual.html clash.

[Matt S Trout]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 04:24:45PM +0200, Emanuele Zeppieri wrote:
> In PPM, Catalyst::Manual is installed by Catalyst::Devel which in turn 
> is installed by Task::Catalyst.
> 
> I was not asking for a workaround anyway, I was just pointing out that 
> installing Catalyst under Windows could be a smooth and effortless 
> operation for everyone, even the most naive user, if we only didn't have 
> this (useless) file (quasi-)duplication.

Or if PPM was fixed to not be so fscking stupid.
 
> You should consider my suggestion also because, aside from PPM, there is 
> not much sense in having Catalyst/Manual.pm and then also 
> Catalyst/Manual.pod from another dist (Catalyst::Runtime) which 
> shouldn't provide any /manual/.
> 
> Just drop Manual.pod from Catalyst::Runtime, because Catalyst will be 
> cleaner ;-)

We tried that. New users didn't realise the manual existed.

And we can't drop the .pm from ::Manual because then CPAN.pm wouldn't know
to install it.

And there are far, far more Catalyst users on non-win32 platforms since it's
a fairly lousy platform for server-side development work.

I'd love to make it easier for you to install Catalyst using your chosen
closed source GUI tool, but not at the expense of everybody using the standard
free software solutions for perl deployment.

Anybody got a suggestion for a third way here?

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