[Catalyst] Easier catalyst installation

[Carl Franks]

On 04/04/06, Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> 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.

You could also try vanilla perl, which is currently at 5.8.8
http://camelpack.sourceforge.net/index.php/VanillaPerl

Once ExtUtils::Install is updated (hopefully in the next couple days),
we'll upload a new vanilla perl, bundled with it.
(Which will fix the omnipresent windows problem of not being able to
upgrade core modules through CPAN.pm, because windows can't replace a
.dll in use.)

Cheers,
Carl