[Catalyst] Catalyst Documentation

[Thomas Hartman]

Hi Matt, I did that and reported back to the group, it's in another thread.

Things have *definitely* improved in the past several months.

My test for "is catalyst installed enough" is running the InstantCRUD
sample app builder with a mysql back end, since this is simple to do
but requires a *lot* of dependencies. If I can do this -- and I think
I'll have this sorted out soon -- I'm going to do a bit of wiki
cleanup.

What I have in mind is to deprecate references to catInABox (which
doesn't even have DBIC), and give more emphasis to the shadowcat
installer. I will also give a more positive report that getting an up
to date catalyst environment on dreamhost is doable, since this is now
true, or close to true.

Thanks to everyone that worked on getting the install smoother.

2006/6/1, Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk>:
> Thomas Hartman wrote:
> > "Mason seems to require custom systems in place, and iirc from when I
> > looked into mason, a long time ago, also requires mod_perl, a problem
> > in a shared hosting environment. "
> >
> > When I tried catalyst on a shared environment, it croaked in
> > dependency hell. Have things improved any?
>
> Then you didn't get the CPAN configuration right :)
>
> Seriously, I've been doing shared-hosting installs without too much pain
> since 5.30 or so, and given one of our main lines of business is
> Catalyst application development and consultancy and we haven't gone
> bust yet, I suspect most of the clients were happy with the results.
>
> Rather than just saying "it croaked", try configuring CPAN for a local
> install and using the cat-install script I wrote (referred to by others
> in this thread as "the shadowcat installer") and report back any
> problems you run into - that would be rather more constructive.
>
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