----- Original Message ----
> From: Tomas Doran <[email protected]>
> To: The elegant MVC web framework <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 8:28:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [Catalyst] RFC: no make install on catalyst apps
>
>
> On 28 Jul 2009, at 14:14, Marcus Ramberg wrote:
>
> > I see catalyst apps being complete CPAN packages as a real advantage.
> > Taking away the make install option seems very limiting
>
> +1
>
> I would very much support moving to a 'real' sharedir for templates / config
> etc, rather than the current hacks (given appropriate back compat) however.
>
> Cheers
> t0m
>
I am vaguely planning something roughly based on the XDG directory
specification:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
for localizing configs and related. Something like this would make is much
easier to have multiply versions of the same catalyst application running.
Like, if I had MojoMojo installed and wanted to run two seperate wikis with
different configs. You can do that now but requires playing with %ENV and
copying some configs around.
In my mind the way this would work is that you'd have the config and other
share data stuff as templates inside your dist, and than at install time we'd
copy to all the correct places. Then we'd merge configurations in the
following order.
$cpan/config/myapp.conf
$home/.config/myapp.conf
/etc/myapp.conf
Where $cpan is where cpan stuff is installed globally, $home is your home
directory. Maybe we could move around the order a bit, but this way we'd set
all the 'no moving parts here' config in the $cpan (stuff like when the app was
installed, some paths). Then whatever user started the app, we'd read from her
local configuration (we'd probably need some sort of 'first time' script if
it's not present, which would copy from a template and prompt for required
values) and last we'd merge in any globally set up stuff.
Maybe with more people using local lib this is not as important, although I see
local lib most as a developer tool or as a workaround for people that are on
shared servers.
That's just for config, but could work as well for search paths for templates
Most of the bits are in place for this, and I think this cold be grafted into a
project like
"http://github.com/bobtfish/catalyst-app-example-locallibapp/tree/master"; if we
all agree.
John
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