>________________________________
>From: John Romkey <[email protected]>
>To: The elegant MVC web framework <[email protected]>
>Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2011 10:31 PM
>Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Can the latest Catalyst version from CPAN be installed
>under Windows?
>
>
>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.
I'm glad that worked for you then, although I'd still recommend local lib to
manage your post installed Perl dependencies. Having all your deps in a global
area does often cause trouble. Good luck!
John
>- 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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