[Catalyst] Easier catalyst installation

[Christopher H. Laco]

Matt S Trout wrote:
> 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.
> 

Fresh 5.8.7 install

I ended up in an infinite loop:


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