On 16 Jul 2009, at 02:48, Chris wrote:
I'm trying to establish a working recipe for Cat apps with local::lib
and app-local mini-CPANs. The aim is to have completely independent
app installations with their own copies of all their dependancies, so
an install will be copy to server and run installdeps, and everything
installs from the mini-cpan which lives in the app dir. This is fairly
important when supporting several different apps on different cat
versions. To date I've been using a modified krang installer, but it
doesn't handle dependancies at all, and the install process feels like
it's held together with spit.
I'm using t0m's work on local::lib with cat:
http://github.com/bobtfish/catalyst-app-example-locallibapp/tree/
master,
which works very well.
Awesome :) That has become slightly abandonware, just because I don't
have any tuits to work on it more :/
Glad that it's 'good enough' for you.
I'm caught on the other piece, getting installdeps to work with a
mini-cpan living in the app directory. All the instructions for
mini-cpans assume you have one private cpan directory and can 'o conf
urllist' to set your file:// path. Sadly this doesn't work very well
with a cpan directory-per-application.
I really don't know how well relative paths work in CPAN config..
However, I was thinking that the best way to deal with this was to
write a custom local-lib5/CPAN/MyConfig.pm into the app's local lib,
which would controll the apps CPAN preferences, including overriding
distroprefs and CPAN mirrors etc..
I have no idea how well this would work, as I haven't tried it yet,
but it was the strategy I was going for ;)
Let us know how it works out for you and/or send me patches?
Cheers
t0m
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