[Catalyst] installing catalyst on mac os

[Filippo A. Salustri]

Follow up:

Having gone thru everything I described previously (original message at 
http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/msg05009.html)

now when I do 'install Catalyst'
I find that cpan thinks it was installed properly.

I'm going to look for some simple downloads that will test drive catalyst. 
I'm still worried that I had to force-install a number of modules, but I don't 
know how else to find any problems.

Thanks to everyone for their input.

Happy Holidays.
Fil Salustri

Devin Austin wrote:
> Hi Fillipo,
> 
> Have you checked out cat-install? It's located here: 
> http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/static/cat-install
> 
> Just wget that, and run perl cat-install and things should go as planned.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> -Devin
> 
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Filippo A. Salustri 
> <salustri at ryerson.ca <mailto:salustri at ryerson.ca>> wrote:
> 
>     Tomas, Ashley, et al,
> 
>     I've been using the installed version since I got the Mac - about 3
>     yrs ago.  I've done alot in that time - /never/ had any trouble with
>     perl 5.8.6.
> 
>     Just FYI, I'm a catalyst beginner, but I wrote my first perl script
>     in 1986.  So you can "use big words" and I'll very likely get it.
> 
>     I was trying to install Task::Catalyst cuz the online Catalyst
>     manual says so.  ...maybe the manual should be updated?
> 
>     I do recall trying just 'install Catalyst' some time ago, but that
>     crapped out too.  I'll try that again and see if the error messages
>     look any different.
> 
>     Will post if there's anything new to report.
> 
>     I do appreciate all the input.
>     Cheers.
>     Fil
> 
>     Tomas Doran wrote:
> 
> 
>         On 24 Dec 2008, at 00:25, Ashley wrote:
> 
>             I love OS X but the Perl it has historically shipped with is
>             historically no so hot. I would strongly recommend you
>             install the latest 5.8 (NOT over your system perl but beside
>             it) or 5.10.
> 
> 
>         I don't consider this good advice, especially for a beginner.
> 
>         Catalyst runs *just fine* against the 5.8.6 that Apple ship. And
>         I wouldn't recommend running 5.10.0 as that has a bug which
>         makes it very hard to debug applications.
> 
>             You should probably avoid Task::Catalyst entirely.
> 
> 
>         This is more sage advice, the failures being seen weren't in the
>         core Catalyst, but in addons, although the fact that
>         Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst is failing isn't good, as this is
>         one of the things everyone should be encouraged to be using :(
> 
>         Has anyone looked into this yet?
> 
>         Cheers
>         t0m
> 
> 
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