[Catalyst] Kudos and thanks

[Ashley]

I haven't installed Catalyst from scratch since… I don't know, 2006, I  
think. I have reinstalled or installed parts of it many times on many  
platforms and that first full installation was the only one that  
didn't cause me some kind of problem, sometimes the kind that takes a  
couple hours to work out. I wrote an early review of Cat back then,  
still on the frameworks homepage, that raved in part about how easy it  
was to install. A couple months, and a couple of arguments on the list  
about growing installation issues, later I was starting to wish I  
could take back some of the review.

I just installed Catalyst::Runtime and Catalyst::Devel from scratch on  
a brand new MacBook/Leopard without any modifications to the  
environment (well, Xcode but that's required for development) or the  
CPAN or anything and they both went in (while following prereqs)  
without a single hitch.

I really don't enjoy sysadmin stuff and I begrudge every lost weekend  
I've spent trying to recompile Apache with modperl, etc, etc. This was  
just completely fantastic. Made me fall in love with Perl and Cat and  
recapture the same feeling I had when I first reviewed Catalyst more  
than two years ago.

Thanks again to everyone who has worked on making the various pieces  
and making the various piece go.

-Ashley