[Catalyst] Is it normal to have lots of trouble installing catalyst?

[John Napiorkowski]

Does anyone have any thoughts about what those
troublemakers could be?  Right now it's seems to me
that dozens and dozens of modules are added to a base
install of perl 5.8.8 when you install Catalyst, but
that could just be my overreacting.

--- apv <apv at sedition.com> wrote:

> Before 5.5, or so, Catalyst was a much easier
> install. It turned
> up nothing I didn't already have. The new NEXT
> scheme is
> very nice though and probably worth the cost of
> bringing in
> so much dependency.
> 
> The major problem I had and sounds like you did too
> was
> broken prerequisite chains in the dependency (not
> Catalyst modules but package like Test::Warn, IIRC).
> So it would ask 15 times "do you want to follow?"
> but
> then fail b/c it ended up doing them in the wrong
> order.
> I think this is just bound to happen sometimes when
> you're trying to do 60 new interlinked modules.
> 
> I installed two or three of the trouble makers on
> their own
> and then tried Catalyst again and it worked fine. I
> was
> using the regular CPAN shell.
> 
> It was a hassle and if I hadn't already had some
> success with Catalyst in earlier versions I might
> have given up.
> 
> -Ashley
> 
> On Tuesday, February 7, 2006, at 10:24  AM, John
> Napiorkowski wrote:
> > I'm just asking for people experiences trying to
> > install catalyst.  I've done a lot of web searches
> and
> > all I get is that using catalyst is as easy as
> having
> > a modern version of perl and typing "perl -MCPAN
> > -e'install Task::Catalyst'" but that hasn't been
> the
> > case for me.
> >
> > My typical experience with installing catalyst is
> that
> > CPAN tries to install what appears to be hundreds
> of
> > prerequisites and then dies for various reasons.
> > Typical one of more of the required files dies but
> > it's hard to tell since each required file seems
> to
> > spawn off a dozen new required files and I kind of
> get
> > lost as to what is dying and for which reason.
> >
> > I figured my perl was just way out of date so I
> tried
> > downloading perl5.8.8 and compiling a fresh
> install
> > from scratch.  Pretty much the same trouble.
> >
> > I find I can get Catalyst installed after about a
> day
> > of messing around and liberally using force
> installs,
> > but of course I am not sure if that is so good. 
> I've
> > tried installing Catalyst on FedoraCore2, Cento4.2
> and
> > the most recent version fo Ubuntu linux.  I also
> tried
> > installing it on Activestate Perl for Windows but
> gave
> > up completely in that one :)
> >
> > I am not asking anyone to solve my problems.  I
> just
> > want to hear from you all if my experiences are
> just
> > plain strange or if this is the norm?  I
> understand
> > Catalyst is in heavy development so there are
> bound to
> > be troubles, but I just need to know if this is
> > something I can really start to rely on for my new
> > projects.  Other people clearly are, so I am just
> > really confused that I am having so much trouble
> with
> > this.  To be honest if I spend days trying to set
> it
> > up on my clients servers that is not going to look
> too
> > good.  So please your honest opinions.
> >
> > John
> >
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