Thanks for all the helpful replies! fireartist wrote: > If you post the error messages you get to this list, I'm sure someone > will be able to help.
There were dozens, at least. It's probably the missing-dependency problem described in the other replies. Modules are not being installed automatically in an order that works. Strange that cat-install worked for some people. It died just as spectacularly for me. Maybe the people it worked for already had a bunch of important dependencies properly installed that I didn't have. jjn1056 wrote: > If you'd like I make a quick and dirty script to load > CPAN modules in an order that seems to work when I > start from a vanilla 5.8.7 install. That sounds like it would be very helpful, should I ever have reason to deal with this absurd CPAN installation mess. However... fireartist wrote: > Many modules, particularly DBI / DBD::SQLite, include C code which > needs to be compiled on the target machine. Ok, now I realize Catalyst isn't what I'm looking for. I need something more lightweight. I'm doing this for fun in my spare time and wanting something I can host on a cheap web hosting provider that only supports perl/CGI/PHP and MySQL but doesn't allow compiling and installing my own C software. Or if there's nothing that does what I want in perl or PHP, I could pop for a slightly more expensive hosting service that would support Python or Java or Ruby on Rails, but still not installing new C software. What I want should be simple: a utility written entirely in Perl or PHP that I'd run once to query the schema of an existing MySQL database, which would output a set of new scripts (also entirely in Perl or PHP) that would let a user perform basic web-based CRUD operations on the tables in the database, preferably using a nice, simple MVC design. Then I could customize those scripts as needed. Does such a utility exist? _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.rawmode.org Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.rawmode.org/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/