[Catalyst] Can the latest Catalyst version from CPAN be installed under Windows?

[John Napiorkowski]

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>I just did a clean reinstall when I upgraded to Lion... I used MacPorts Perl (5.12.3) and loaded Catalyst through CPAN without any major issues that I recall.

I'm glad that worked for you then, although I'd still recommend local lib to manage your post installed Perl dependencies.  Having all your deps in a global area does often cause trouble.  Good luck!

John

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>On Sep 8, 2011, at 9:21 PM, John Napiorkowski wrote:
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>I'd really love to see some logs of this problem.  I am on MacOSX and don't have problems of this magnitude when installing Catalyst.  However I don't use the built in system Perl, I use Perlbrew + local::lib + cpanm as my primary build toolchain.  If I use a modern Perl (5.12+) the only things that give me trouble is the bit of extra work it takes to install DBD::mysql (need to make sure you set the ENV var to point to the mysql_config utility if that is not in $PATH).
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>>I know Catalyst does have quite a few dependencies, but I round tripped installing Catalyst and Task::Catalyst many times as part of the testing I did prior to the latest release, so I know that it can work (abet a bit time consuming to run all the tests for all the dependencies).  If you follow the generally promoted process:
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>>1) Setup a local Perl with perlbrew and a modern Perl.
>>2) Create and activate a local::lib where you dependencies will go (in other words never install stuff into the perlbrew managed Perl)
>>3) use cpanm
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>>You should have little trouble.  Again, I'd love to see the logs.  I know the temptation to use some sort of port system here is quite high, but my experience is that this is not a great path for developers and the port/deb/rpm etc. almost always get something wrong that causes you pain in the end.
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>>Just my experience.  Hope this helps.
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>>John
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>>>From: Tom Keller <kellert at ohsu.edu>
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>>>Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Can the latest Catalyst version from CPAN be installed under Windows? 
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>>>If you are on OS X, you can use MacPorts to install Catalyst. I had tried using CPAN, but got seemingly circular errors as well.
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>>>On Sep 8, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
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Hi,
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>>>> I have tried to install Catalyst with CPAN, but it gave an error telling that it has a missing dependency in Plack::Test::ExternalServer.
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>>>> That module couldn't install because of a test error (something like a missing empty port or something like that)
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>>>> So I force installed Plack::Test::ExternalServer, but after this step, when I tried to install again Catalyst, it gave more errors:
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>>>> Failed 107/141 test programs. 15/385 subtests failed. 
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>>>> Octavian
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