[Catalyst] [ANNOUNCE] Meios Photo Gallery App

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On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Christopher H. Laco wrote:

>> that it doesn't rely on any external binaries. It has XS code, but at
>> least it can be installed completely via a CPAN build of Meios.
>
> Which brings me to a question I've been meaning to ask.
>
> Does anyone actually "make install" their catalyst applications? Seems
> pointless to me for things like Meios that were designed to just run
> after unpacking. 90% of it would be un-reusable (except for
> Meios::Gallery/Meios::Photo).

Not only that, but I package them in nice little debian packages, which takes
care of moving all the templates and such to /var/www/<app> and installing
config files where appropriate.

Not that this is necessarily the preferred approach to deployment, but it does
mean I can use debconf for per-system configuration, among other things.

Plus, I like to run my apps under apache (for the chocolatey goodness provided
by a server that just stays up and has much tweakability). Making a package
means I can automatically install per-app apache config files and such.

I'd be interested to learn what other people are doing for deployment, since I
couldn't find much about it on the wiki.

Regards,

Simon.



>
> I can't imaging why I would want "make install" to shove crap into my
> system, especially things likd root/static, etc.
>
> -=Chris
>

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