On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:06:31AM +0100, Tomas Doran wrote: > > On 16 Jul 2009, at 02:48, Chris wrote: > >> I'm trying to establish a working recipe for Cat apps with local::lib >> and app-local mini-CPANs. The aim is to have completely independent >> app installations with their own copies of all their dependancies, so >> an install will be copy to server and run installdeps, and everything >> installs from the mini-cpan which lives in the app dir. This is fairly >> important when supporting several different apps on different cat >> versions. To date I've been using a modified krang installer, but it >> doesn't handle dependancies at all, and the install process feels like >> it's held together with spit. >> >> I'm using t0m's work on local::lib with cat: >> http://github.com/bobtfish/catalyst-app-example-locallibapp/tree/ >> master, >> which works very well. > > Awesome :) That has become slightly abandonware, just because I don't > have any tuits to work on it more :/ > > Glad that it's 'good enough' for you. > >> I'm caught on the other piece, getting installdeps to work with a >> mini-cpan living in the app directory. All the instructions for >> mini-cpans assume you have one private cpan directory and can 'o conf >> urllist' to set your file:// path. Sadly this doesn't work very well >> with a cpan directory-per-application. > > I really don't know how well relative paths work in CPAN config.. > > However, I was thinking that the best way to deal with this was to write > a custom local-lib5/CPAN/MyConfig.pm into the app's local lib, which > would controll the apps CPAN preferences, including overriding > distroprefs and CPAN mirrors etc..
This is a totally awesome idea. That would make development much easier. I have 3 apps going now, and though they all have local::libs, I would much rather them all have separate cpan configs as well. I offer encouragement. Amiri _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/