[Catalyst] PPM vs CPAN

[Hugh Lampert]

Matt S Trout wrote:
>
> Once you've got CPAN configured and nmake and a gcc installed,
>
> http://shadowcatsystems.co.uk/static/cat-install
>
> will install Catalyst itself plus deps hands-off via CPAN (with a 
> little help from ppm on windows)
>
Err, yes... gcc... seems to be a bit of a problem.  Hate to impose on 
the members of the list, but can anyone point me in the direction of a 
good  win32 binary GCC package that doesn't require Cygwin or other 
"environments"?  the CPAN module was kind enough to download and install 
NMAKE from Microsoft itself (that  was nice), when I upgraded it.

>> BTW, Why is it Task::Catalyst and not Bundle::Catalyst? I want to 
>> install this but it does not run, getting an NMAKE fatal error U1077, 
>> errors looking for GPG, etc.  This is why I like the PPM packages... 
>> I'm assuming that anything that fails to make does not get installed 
>> in the perl lib tree, correct?
>
> See http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Task-1.01/lib/Task.pm for an 
> explanation.
>
Thanks, that was very informative! (well beyond my level, but still very 
informative).

-- Hugh