From: "Kieren Diment" <dim...@gmail.com>
I'm still keen on the idea of an easy Perl/Catalyst installer. Something
that might encompass local::lib, PAR and deployable on the three or four
main OSs windows (strawberry perl), OS X (10.4 and 10.5, using the
system provided perl) and linux (maybe debian and red hat based distros -
again using the system perl). Also needs to work in an environment with
no root/Administrator access. And a nice "double click" installer at
the end would be good. I've rigged up an appalling hack to do this in
windows that needs finessed, but I haven't looked at the other OSs.
Mentoring? Well, what I can offer is to point a student in the right
direction of who to talk to, not much else. I'm also very tolerant of
stupidity being a somewhat mentally challenged programmer myself.
It is a great idea for promoting Catalyst!
A smart installer won't be necessary. I think a simple .tar.gz (or .zip)
archive that contains all the modules which are not a part of the Perl
distribution would be enough.
The user could unarchive the file in a certain location like
/home/user/Catalyst
or
C:\Catalyst
then he could create new apps using a command like
/home/user/Catalyst/bin/catalyst.pl MyApp
or
c:\Catalyst\bin\catalyst MyApp
This would create the app in the current directory and the app would need to
also add /home/user/Catalyst/lib or c:\Catalyst/lib in @INC.
The user would be also able to "install" Catalyst under a server running
Linux, create the apps under Windows and then he could archive the apps
under Windows, upload them to the Linux server, unarchive them and run them.
Of course, the only out of the box solution for running the apps would be
the CGI way, because for running the testing server or for configuring
fastcgi or mod_perl would need root permissions, but I think this is the
same in case of other frameworks.
(I don't know if using mod_php or mod_python requires the same permissions
though...)
Octavian
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