[Catalyst] Catalyst Documentation

[Thomas Hartman]

s/deprecate/qualify/

i think is the right thing to do, and I will be doing that.

2006/6/1, Christopher H. Laco <claco at chrislaco.com>:
> Matt S Trout wrote:
> > Thomas Hartman wrote:
> >> Hi Matt, I did that and reported back to the group, it's in another thread.
> >
> > Ok, my apologies. A number of people have been kind enough to do so and
> > I don't quite manage to keep track of the names :)
> >
> >> 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
>
> I'm biased, but I would not just deprecate references for CatInABox.
> CatInABox serves one main purpose the shadowcat installer does not: it
> gives people who want to try Catalyst without spending all morning
> installing things a means to do so. Sure, it may be incomplete for the
> project developer, but for the "what's this cat thingy?" people, it
> servers its purpose well.
>
>
> >> to date catalyst environment on dreamhost is doable, since this is now
> >> true, or close to true.
> >
> > Actually, I think Chris Laco has built a catinabox which does have DBIC.
>
> Any a bunch more, but only for win32 at this point.
>
> >
> > What we really need is for me or somebody else to get round to
> > encapsulating the appropriate magic to make local installs work; I'm
> > pretty sure I know how to do it but I can do it by hand fast enough for
> > my own purposes so I've not quite got round to it yet.
> >
> > Would people be interested in a commercial "local install environment
> > manager" type thing? Tuits are far more likely to be available if I can
> > justify it as commercial time :)
> >
> >> Thanks to everyone that worked on getting the install smoother.
> >
>
> <broken_record_mode>
> Don't forget, Perl 5.10 is suppoed to finally be able to run in any
> location on a persons machine without compile/installer time tweakage of
> Config/perl binary.
>
> This means we can, and will be able to have a downloadable package that
> has perl 5.10, and all of the XS/DBI/DBIC compiled goodness right inside
> for a true "unpack and go" version with all the bells and whistles.
> </broken_record_mode>
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