[Catalyst] Suggestions for CatalystX::Installer

[Paul Cain]

Hi Mitch,

You have some interesting ideas; thank you for your input.

CatalystX::Installer is mainly designed to help deploy an already
written project to a server for use. Here is a link to the full
description of my current plan:
http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/05/2008q2_grant_proposal_catalyst.html#more.
Although I'm still planning, so things might change.

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Mitch Jackson <perimus at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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