[Catalyst] Suggestions for CatalystX::Installer

Mitch Jackson perimus at gmail.com
Sun May 11 20:52:58 BST 2008


Paul,

Is CatalystX::Installer going to be used to help initally create a
project, or help deploy a project that is already written to a server
for use?  If it is for helping deploy a project to a server, there's a
few things I think would be helpful.

- Generate a cpan preresiquites list from the source
- Generate a file or archive of some sort that can be used to deploy
the application
- Install the preresiquites via CPAN
- Implement setting up the initial database state, perhaps through
$schema->deploy(), or a SQL script, or another method
- create a system user/group to run the application under
- create the location on disk and extract the application to it from a
tar or other sort of archive
- run the app's test suite and report if tests succeed or fail
- generate an include file... perhaps something like myapp.httpd.conf
that can be included into httpd.conf

Hopefully this is helpful!

/Mitchell K. Jackson

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Paul Cain <fat.perl.hacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I am developing a program called CatalystX::Installer that will
> simplify the installation and setup of Catalyst applications.
>
> I was thinking about what the default options should be for
> CatalystX::Installer and am wondering what people want. Basically, I
> was thinking that they should be configuration information for the
> most common tools used  with Catalyst. CatalystX::Installer runs
> during or right after the installation of a Catalyst application and
> takes care of the initial configuration.Therefore, things that are
> commonly done during that time are a good candidate for adding to list
> of default options.
>
> Here is what I have so far:
>
> 1. Login information
>
> This is where the user logs into the setup application with a username
> and password.
>
> 2. Required Plugins
>
> Here is where the user enters all of the plugins, such as HTML::Widget
> Authorization::ACL, and StackTrance,  that need to be loaded.
> CatalystX::Installer will then add them to lib/MyApp.pm.
>
> 3. Database Locations and Types
>
> This is where the user enters the location of and type of all of the
> database that they are going to use. CatalystX::Installer will then
> generate all of the necessary config files, possibly by means of
> Catalyst::Example::InstantCRUD.
>
> 4. Engine
>
> The user can select whether to use mod_perl, fastcgi, or something
> else. CatalystX::Installer will then do the necessary configuration.
>
>
> That is all I have so far. I was also think about having 4 screens, 1
> for login, 1 for models, 1 for views, and 1 for controllers; however,
> this might be hard to implement due to how blurry the borders between
> those last 3 can be.
>
> Anyways, I welcome any suggestions for default(or even non-default)
> options for the setup application(which will consist of HTML forms).
> I also welcome comments or questions on my current ideas or
> CatalystX::Installer in general.
>
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