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

[Will Hawes]

Karl.Moens at marsh.com wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Just adding my 0.02$ to the discussion.
> 
> Would it be overly difficult to host Catalyst with all its modules and
> dependencies as a PPM package (or set of packages) for ActiveState Perl
> users?
> 
> When I last did a install of Catalyst on a clean "out of the box"
> ActiveState Perl, CPAN / CPANPLUS failed to install quite a lot of modules
> and dependencies as they  needed to be compiled, which on a compiler
> challenged Windows system is a big PITA. I think I managed to pull these
> all in through PPM (although I had to look in various repositories and in
> the end the newest version of Scalar::List::Utils somehow broke the weak
> references functionality, so I had to manually copy some 10-odd files from
> another clean install of ActiveState Perl to  make it work again), but it
> really took me the best part of the day.
> 
> It would be a nice service to the Windows / ActiveState Perl users if the
> Catalyst web-site provides a PPM repository of Catalyst, its modules and
> dependencies. Installing Catalyst would then be as simple as adding this
> repository to your list of repos and typing "install Catalyst".
> 
> Karl
> aka CountZero on Perlmonks
> 

Possibly a good point. However, availability of Catalyst PPMs is a lot 
better now than it used to be and I believe the majority of those that 
you need can be found here:

http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms