[Catalyst] Here's my shot at an app to install Catalyst Dependencies

[Matt S Trout]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 08:16:46AM -0700, Nathan Kurz wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 01:17:13AM -0800, John Napiorkowski wrote:
> > I know this shell script is a brain dead way to do this, so I am
> > looking for suggestions on how to improve it.
> 
> Hey John ---
> 
> Seems like a great start.  I think there are two ways to go from here.
> 
> 1) You could make your shell script into a Perl bundle.  Bundles are
>    special Perl modules that do nothing other than load other
>    modules.  Check 'perldoc CPAN' check the section 'Bundles'.

That would be a really dumb idea; Bundles are evil and handled specially
by CPAN.pm - the Task::* stuff is an effort at finally getting rid of
them, hence Task::Catalyst replacing Bundle::Catalyst.

> 2) You could create a modified Makefile.PL or META.yml for
>    Task::Catalyst that declares these things as prerequisites.  That
>    way they'll be loaded automatically by CPAN.

Module::Install has a facility for auto-bundling dependencies.

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