[Catalyst] Catalyst update issues

Matt S Trout dbix-class at trout.me.uk
Tue Apr 4 20:34:08 CEST 2006


Bill Moseley wrote:
> I've mentioned this before, but what if dev.catalyst.perl maintained a
> local make install tree of the pure-perl modules, including a good
> chunk of the plugins?  Then at release time make a snap-shot tarball,
> and maybe make the tree rsync-able for daily updates.  Then to
> installs we would just need to unpack the tarball someplace
> (say $HOME/cat), and make sure I have the additional modules that have
> binary parts installed ($HOME/cat-bin).  I'd give up a chunk of disk
> space to avoid the installs I've had in the past.

Right, but doing that properly and keeping the damn thing updated need a 
little more work. Having a no-prompting-required way of building everything 
for purposes like that is another reason I built cat-install.

So, since you clearly want this to happen too, where's your install log output 
for me? :)

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