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

[Scott Karns]

Well, I'm a confirmed distro package manager adherent
-- Mandriva's urpmi is my tool of choice. When I began
exploring Catalyst, I was lucky enough to find that
someone had already packaged a relatively recent
version of Catalyst so I started with that, updated it
to what was then the most recent release (5.61 I
think) and just kept downloading from CPAN and
building my own packages for all the required modules
for which no pre-built packages existed. Looking in my
RPM directory, it looks like that came to
approximately 30 packages I had to create, build and
install. urpmi took care of any other dependencies for
which packages already existed. It took the better
part of two days, but now I'm all set.

I haven't yet attempted installing on another system,
that's probably a worthwhile exercise at this point.

-Scott


--- John Napiorkowski <jjn1056 at yahoo.com> 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 I figured my perl was just way out of date so I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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