I'm a programmer with many years experience with perl and some with CGI scripts but little with CPAN and none with web app frameworks.
I've been trying for days to install Catalyst and haven't gotten far. I've tried both "perl -MCPAN 'install Task::Catalyst'" and cat-install and they both fail with many errors in various prerequisite modules. I've tried this on Sun Solaris, NetBSD, and Cygwin, and they fail in similar ways on all three. I've tried CatInABox and started going through the Catalyst Tutorial, and that works, up to running myapp_server.pl and accessing it from my web browser, or accessing myapp_cgi.pl. This was a little encouraging, but CatInABox doesn't include DBIx::Class, and when I try installing that, it also fails with errors in prerequisites, so I can't get any farther than the middle of part 2 of the tutorial. I've searched at vmware.com for the prebuilt VMWare image that supposedly exists for Catalyst but haven't been able to find it, and for some reason there's no link to it in the Catalyst documentation where it's mentioned. But running this inside a VM seems excessively convoluted, so I hope there's another way. Here's my request: would someone please build a greatly expanded version of CatInABox that would include all the modules referenced in the Catalyst Tutorial and the other Catalyst examples, and all their recursive prerequisites, and put it up for people to download? In fact, please also include any other modules you can think of that might naturally be used with Catalyst. I don't care if this turns into 1GB of perl modules (who doesn't have 100GB of space these days anyway), but I really don't look forward to having things fail again every time I try to add a module from CPAN and it requires Tree::Simple or something else that won't install for whatever reason. My hope: download the archive, extract it, setenv PERL5LIB to reference the extracted directory, and then be able to run the whole Catalyst Tutorial with no further ado. Is that so much to ask? _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
