I just did a clean reinstall when I upgraded to Lion... I used MacPorts Perl
(5.12.3) and loaded Catalyst through CPAN without any major issues that I
recall.
- john romkey
http://www.romkey.com/
On Sep 8, 2011, at 9:21 PM, John Napiorkowski wrote:
> I'd really love to see some logs of this problem. I am on MacOSX and don't
> have problems of this magnitude when installing Catalyst. However I don't
> use the built in system Perl, I use Perlbrew + local::lib + cpanm as my
> primary build toolchain. If I use a modern Perl (5.12+) the only things that
> give me trouble is the bit of extra work it takes to install DBD::mysql (need
> to make sure you set the ENV var to point to the mysql_config utility if that
> is not in $PATH).
>
> I know Catalyst does have quite a few dependencies, but I round tripped
> installing Catalyst and Task::Catalyst many times as part of the testing I
> did prior to the latest release, so I know that it can work (abet a bit time
> consuming to run all the tests for all the dependencies). If you follow the
> generally promoted process:
>
> 1) Setup a local Perl with perlbrew and a modern Perl.
> 2) Create and activate a local::lib where you dependencies will go (in other
> words never install stuff into the perlbrew managed Perl)
> 3) use cpanm
>
> You should have little trouble. Again, I'd love to see the logs. I know the
> temptation to use some sort of port system here is quite high, but my
> experience is that this is not a great path for developers and the
> port/deb/rpm etc. almost always get something wrong that causes you pain in
> the end.
>
> Just my experience. Hope this helps.
>
> John
>
> From: Tom Keller <[email protected]>
> To: The elegant MVC web framework <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2011 4:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Can the latest Catalyst version from CPAN be
> installed under Windows?
>
> If you are on OS X, you can use MacPorts to install Catalyst. I had tried
> using CPAN, but got seemingly circular errors as well.
>
> Tom
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> On Sep 8, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have tried to install Catalyst with CPAN, but it gave an error telling
> > that it has a missing dependency in Plack::Test::ExternalServer.
> >
> > That module couldn't install because of a test error (something like a
> > missing empty port or something like that)
> >
> > So I force installed Plack::Test::ExternalServer, but after this step, when
> > I tried to install again Catalyst, it gave more errors:
> >
> > Failed 107/141 test programs. 15/385 subtests failed.
> >
> > Octavian
> >
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