[Catalyst] Re: deploying a Catalyst app

[A. Pagaltzis]

* Octavian Rasnita <orasnita at gmail.com> [2007-06-01 20:10]:
> When installing it on the target machine (with make, make
> install) it should require all the necessary Catalyst and
> non-Catalyst modules.

Take a look at pip: http://search.cpan.org/dist/pip/

It’s an installer for tarball dists that resolves dependencies
like CPAN.pm. Instead of doing

    tar xvzf MyApp.tar.gz
    cd MyApp
    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make test
    make install

you just do

    pip -i MyApp.tar.gz

and not only will it automate the entire above sequence, it will
also install all the dependencies that MyApp’s Makefile.PL
declares.

If you have several non-CPAN modules to install you can also
write a .p5i file (which is just a plaintext list of tarballs)
and invoke pip on that file, and it will install them all, in
the order you gave.

Very handy.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>