O HAI!
The debian-perl team has built packages for Catalyst to allow debian
users easy installation and quality assurance. The addition of the
proposed installation code in Catalyst would break current apps and
would most likely be removed by debian / ubuntu because it
fundamentally interferes with a user's stated wishes. When a user
calls "aptitude install catalyst" they explicitly want catalyst
installed and not a message saying "are you sure you want to install
catalyst?"
Personally, I greatly prefer the UNIX philosophy of "silence equals
success," and would not welcome any notification around installation.
Regards,
Jeremiah
On Jul 28, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Marcus Ramberg wrote:
I see catalyst apps being complete CPAN packages as a real advantage.
Taking away the make install option seems very limiting, and
destructive for no good purpose at all. For instance, my previous
employer uses this functionality to build debian packages of all of
their apps.
With regards
Marcus Ramberg
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Devin
Austin<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi gang,
There's been some discord as to whether or not Catalyst applications
should/should not have the option of make install.
Personally, I'm not really partial either way. Especially with the
advent
of tools like Dist::Zilla that allow you to keep track of the
modules you
need and build a distribution to release.
Either way, I think it's time we come to a consensus. Multiple
times there
have been emails like this asking about it, so let's squash it once
and for
all and get an answer.
-dhoss
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