I'm "coming back" to using Catalyst to build an application, but have not 
actually used Catalyst for the entire summer and fall of 2008. I am just now 
starting to return to it. Let's say I had a midlife crisis (smile). 

I'm now faced with some coding issues. Namely, I have forgotten a lot of the 
Catalyst I have learned as of the late Spring 2008. I also forgot a lot of my 
Perl, too.

I'm doing all my development work on a VMWare virtual machine running CentOS 
5.2 updated to current patch levels. CentOS is the free version of Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux 5.2. This means I'm still using Perl 5.8.8.

I know from very quick glances at the mailing list headers that Catalyst had, 
or perhaps will have, a major update. I think my Catalyst implementation is 
still at 5.7014.

How do I update it, using CPAN? I forgot. Even worse, I forgot whether I 
installed Perl modules related to Catalyst 5.7014 or how to get a list of these 
modules so I can check for updates to them. 

And finally, what should I be reading in order to re-learn the current version 
of Catalyst?

I noticed some posts from Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum who seems to be doing something 
similar to what I need to do: store stuff in tables and allow users to download 
those tables as comma separated values text from anywhere. I think she was 
focused on image data and I expect I'll need to work with that, too, but the 
big goal for now is to allow csv-based downloads, only the delimiter used won't 
be commas.

Thanks for any and all suggestions!

Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA






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