[Catalyst] how to get started?

[Daniel McBrearty]

FWIW I'd agree with what Max said.

The first time I installed cat on a fresh system it drove me nuts. The
second time it was alot easier. I'm just using normal CPAN. The
biggest hassle is normally an external xxx-dev library that is needed,
it can be a bit of detective work to discover which (installing
apt-file helps). I have also had one issue with something that
wouldn't install due to a bug in a module that got fixed wthin a day.

Anyhow, you regularly need to install or update various packages off
of CPAN, so I figure its worth knowing what is what, and also being
there to keep an eye on what os going in there.

Next time I do it I will use a fresh system and make a vmware image of
the raw system. I regret not doing that this time.

D



On 8/21/06, A. Pagaltzis <pagaltzis at gmx.de> wrote:
> * Steve Atkins <steve at blighty.com> [2006-08-21 20:20]:
> > No. I really don't like using anything other than cpan to
> > install perl modules if I can possibly avoid it. I'm close to
> > making an exception for catalyst, though, so I may give
> > cat-install a try.
>
> You didn't even look at it, did you?
>
> > (IIRC it's basically a wrapper script around CPAN ?)
>
> I don't know if I'd call it a wrapper. I suppose you could. It
> sets up some overrides to automatically answer the setup
> questions of some of the modules involved and then uses the
> CPAN.pm API to drive an automatic installation. Works flawlessly
> for me every time.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
>
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