On 1/2/07, David Morel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Le 3 janv. 07 à 00:29, Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior a écrit : > On 1/2/07, Jonathan Rockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Incidentally, I wrote the chapter of my book on FormBuilder the day >> before the Controller was released :) However, updating the chapter >> only took about 30 seconds... so no excuses! > > I find it somewhat worrying that the first book to be published about > Catalyst has a chapter about a module that currently doesn't install > cleanly under Windows. > > Actually, I have no idea how Test::WWW::Mechanize tests manage to > crash perl under Windows on almost all test cases. Pardon me everyone, but this is getting old. If T:W:M fails to build on winblows, the thing to do is post a bug report on rt.cpan.org (and dig in the errors). This has nothing to do with Catalyst or C:C:FormBuilder.
I agree and the following response also belongs elsewhere. I was curious about Perl on Windows and managed to install Mechanize, etc on the latest version of ActivePerl. I'm surprised how far Windows Perl has come BTW. First, I pointed my PPM repository to http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/package.lst and tried to install Test-WWW-Mechanize-Catalyst, but got the following error: ERROR: File conflict; package Catalyst-Runtime already provide C:/Perl/html/bin/catalyst.html That's because PPM tries to install Catalyst which is listed separately and I had already installed Catalyst-Runtime. Obviously, PPM doesn't know the difference between the old and new version of Catalyst. So I did the following: a) removed Catalyst-Runtime, b) installed Catalyst, c) installed Mechanize, d) removed Catalyst and e) then finally re-installed Catalyst-Runtime. Pretty stupid, I know. Finally I used the CPAN command line to install C-C-FormBuilder, fixed an nmake "Undefined UpdateHTML_blib" error as described at http://support.activestate.com/forum-topic/nmake-of-packages-resulti and got it to install fine -- all test passed. So, it seems with a little bit of common sense and digging around, you could get it installed on Windows in about 30 minutes without any prior experience in that sort of stuff. _______________________________________________ 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/
