[Catalyst] Easier catalyst installation

[Matt S Trout]

Christopher H. Laco wrote:
> Christopher H. Laco wrote:
>> Matt S Trout wrote:
>>> Christopher H. Laco wrote:
>>>> Matt S Trout wrote:
>>>>> Peter Edwards wrote:
>>>>>>> [what's with CPANPLUS 'freezing' at some prompts
>>>>>> I think it's doing downloads and builds silently. That was my guess
>>>>>> anyway.
>>>>>> It sat there for 20-30 minutes on the machines I installed on.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> how the hell do you install Template with cpanp
>>>>>> After unpacking Template-Toolkit-2.14.tar.gz
>>>>>> # perl Makefile.PL TT_HELP
>>>>>> gives the install params, e.g. TT_PREFIX=/some/dir.
>>>>>> Looks like you can pass these with 's conf OPT VALUE'.
>>>>> Anybody who wants to try getting a Catalyst install *without*
>>>>> substantial interactive faffing I'd ask to try
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.shadowcatsystems.co.uk/static/cat-install
>>>>>
>>>>> and tell me what results they get. It works without problem on every
>>>>> linux and windows machine I've tried it on, so it's time to start
>>>>> collecting more data :)
>>>>>
>>>> Boom!
>>> Erm. What happens if you try and use CPAN.pm directly yourself?
>>>
>> Oddly enough , not a damn thing:
>>
>> C:\perl -MCPAN -e 'shell'
>>
>> just takes be back to:
>>
>> C:\
>>
>> How lovely. And LWP isn't honoring my http_proxy/ftp_proxy ENV settings
>> at all....but ppm does...and wget is pretty happy.
> 
> It's a good excuse to wipe my nasty install anyways and update.
> Installing a fresh ActivePerl 5.8.8.817 now....

I wouldn't. It does hairy things that interact unhappily with hairy things in 
Module::Install, as a result of which you're toast for installing a lot of stuff.

I'm running on the latest AS 5.8.7 atm.

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