On 04/03/2009, at 3:41 AM, Lee Aylward wrote:
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 06:06:10PM +1100, Kieren Diment wrote:
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.
I think keeping each installer platform specific would be best. People
on OS X expect a .dmg with a .pkg inside for things like frameworks.
Windows users expect a .exe/msi installer. And if these installers
install
Catalyst to the system perl (or strawberry perl in Windows' case),
even better, because then they can use CPAN to upgrade Catalyst later
on.
What would be really cool is if the Windows installer checked for the
existence of Strawberry Perl, and offered to install it if it can
not be
found.
I don't see a need for anything like this on Linux, though. Don't most
dists have their own Catalyst packages? I know Debian's have served me
fairly well for the past few years.
Well, yes, Linux is the odd man in the pack. But once you sort the
toolchain stuff for the other environments, then linux should *ahem*
almost write its own toolchain. Also useful for single user apps, and
when you don't want to use the outdated packages.
I don't have any experience with the Windows platform, but I would
consider helping out with an OS X package.
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