Following Ben Tilly's suggestion I tried to install
Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial
But that does not exist, or at least this failed:
cpan> install Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial
Warning: Cannot install Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial, don't know what it is.
Try the command
i /Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial/
...
However, this shorter name worked:
cpan> install Catalyst::Manual
And it created a Tutorial folder in site/lib/Catalyst/Manual/
Unfortunately it just creates *.pod files. For a beginner, or even a
non-beginner, it would be very useful to also generate hyperlinked *.html
files.
Is there a standard or convenient way to add that to the Makefile?
To report it to the module author as an enhancement request?
P.S. On Windows from a DOS box (aka command line etc.) you must enclose
strings in double quotes, not single quotes, e.g.
perl -MCPAN -e "install Catalyst::Manual"
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hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve Tolkin
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Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Newbie question
Hi all,
On Friday 07 May 2010 07:52:42 Ben Tilly wrote:
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Laura Bethard <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...]
>
> > I'm not sure if the 3-day will cover what I need to know, and the 5-day
> > is pricey. I'd prefer a traditional class over an online one, but might
> > consider online with a solid recommendation. Anyone have any advice?
>
> [...]
>
> My advice. Bookmark
> http://perldoc.perl.org/index-functions-by-cat.html. Don't try to
> read it. Now read through http://www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/.
> Try to follow what it says but don't worry about really mastering it.
> Then on a Unix system do
>
> perl -MCPAN -e 'install Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial'
>
In addition to that, we have been working on a comprehensive site for Perl
beginners here: http://perl-begin.org/ . It contains links to many resources
and up-to-date information, but unfortunately has received too little
recognition and mainstream awareness. I still feel it is lengths ahead of
anything else I've seen online in their current state.
> This will lead you through a bunch of questions and will install a
> *ton* of stuff. (If you're not happy with your answers you can
> control C out then try again.) If you run into problems on your
> installation (which unfortunately is quite possible) then you can ask
> for help either here or at http://www.perlmonks.org/. (You can also
> ask at stackoverflow. I haven't paid attention, so that might have a
> decent Perl community by now. Or might not. Perlmonks has a built up
> community and history though.)
I'm not too big into Stack Overflow (I'm using it primarily to get answers
to
questions, which I sometimes have - and am not a karma whore), but I think
it
is OK as far as getting help with Perl is concerned. At least brian d foy is
there and some other people. perlmonks reportedly can get a bit hostile, so
one will need to be mentally prepared.
I've skipped over Laura's mentioning of the fact that she needed to write
web-
based frontends. I really should get to updating
http://perl-begin.org/uses/web/ .
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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