[Catalyst] root dir location

[Tomas Doran]

Ben Vinnerd wrote:
> On 18/06/09 08:51, Tomas Doran wrote:
>> At a guess, you deleted your Makefile.PL?
>>
> 
> Yes :O
> 
> I didn't really want to bother with make on my webapp, so deleted that 
> along with Changes and README.

Yeah, that'd get you.

The lines in the generated Makefile.PL which say:

# IMPORTANT: if you delete this file your app will not work as
# expected.  You have been warned.

Are, actually, not lies.

Catalyst uses the presence of a Makefile.PL to work out if your 
application has actually been installed, or if it is just running from a 
checkout.

I totally see the 'I will never install' point of make being unneeded, 
but I personally like the possibility that I may one day run my apps 
somewhere other than my laptop (or, maybe I'll even buy a less crappy 
laptop). So keeping the dependencies in Makefile.PL up to date is a very 
worthwhile exercise; you can then just copy your app to another machine 
and say 'make installdeps', rather than suffer half an hour's 
frustration trying to start your app and failing.

Cheers
t0m