[Catalyst] Standalone Install Package?

[Sebastian Riedel]

Am 19.12.2005 um 18:10 schrieb Michael Richards:

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>
> On 12/19/05, Christopher H. Laco <claco at chrislaco.com> wrote: After  
> the email about a user switching to RoR because of all of the
> [perceived?] install hassles on a shared host, I've been thinking  
> about
> if it would be nice to have an unzip-and-run version of Catalyst with
> all of it's dependencies in the package itself.
>
>
> I may have misunderstood, but I thought the problem was that most  
> shared hosts don't provide the necessary prerequisites, such as  
> mod_perl or FastCGI. Yes, it can work in CGI mode but does anybody  
> actually do that for a real app?

RoR performs much worse in every environment, so that can't be the  
problem.
There are already many shared-hosting providers like DreamHost  
offering FastCGI, but installation takes a lot of time using CPAN.pm...

A prepackaged Cat would also be a much nicer start for people new to  
Perl!


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sebastian