[Catalyst-dev] Proposal to the Perl Foundation for CatalystX::Installer

[Paul Cain]

What if rather than having command line options, you could just use
WWW::Mechanize to automatically fill out the forms with a script.

Something like:

use WWW::Mechanize;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();

#Your password shouldn't be hardcoded into a script this way in practice
$mech->submit_form(
        fields      => {
            username    => 'admin',
            password    => 'mypass',
        }
);

$mech->submit_form(
        fields    => {
                  dbd       => 'sqlite',
                  dbname => 'foo.db',
                  #ect
        },
);

This would be easier than implementing two seperate interfaces for the
command line and GUI, and with a little golf it could probably be done
in a few perl -e commands.

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Kieren Diment <diment at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  On 28 Apr 2008, at 16:57, Andreas Marienborg wrote:
>
>
> >
> > On Apr 28, 2008, at 7:26 AM, Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Kieren Diment <diment at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > There is no command line version of this program since anyone who
> > > > > wants to use the command line can just edit the configuration files
> > > > > directly. I think this program could be classified as a new approach
> > > > > that is also an aggregation of existing tools and ideas.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > dunno about that.  You could override the myapp_install.pl script so
> that
> > > > if @ARGV is not empty it runs it from the command line:
> > > >
> > > > script/myapp_install.pl --dsn dbd:sqlite:dbname=foo.db
> --admin-user=fred
> > > > --admin-passwd=wilma --deployment-path=/ and so on.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hmm.  My understanding was that all of the options above could be
> > > entered in the GUI.
> > >
> >
> > I think Kieren wants to be able to do BOTH, and that the
> CatalystX::Installer, in the end of the process, gives you a command line
> equivalent of the setup you already did, if, for instance, you want to redo
> the installation later or something like that
> >
>
>  Yes, exactly, thanks :-)
>
>
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