[Catalyst] Standalone Install Package?

[Christopher H. Laco]

Matt S Trout wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 02:09:03PM -0500, Christopher H. Laco wrote:
>> Sebastian Riedel wrote:
>>> Am 19.12.2005 um 19:44 schrieb Christopher H. Laco:
>>>> I was thinking Schroedinger (ala Cat In A Box).
>>> But Schroedinger's cat is dead!
>>>
>>> Maybe Garfield...
>>>
>>>>> Module::ScanDeps can be a big help identifying prereqs btw.
>>>> HTML::Parser (Entities) will be the first hurdle.
>>>> In theory, I think I can just put the xs based modules in their own
>>>> directories, and shove the right one into @INC at runtime...
>>> No need to manually modify @INC, just look how blib trees are
>>> constructed (darwin-thread-multi-2level/...).
>>> But this would require a build cluster... :/
>> Right, but sometimes they're not that specific.
>> For example, a ppm on win32 has blib/auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.dll There's
>> nothing platform specific about that blib directory. I think blib
>> structures are a crap shoot at best.
>>
>> But, at the very least, that brings us down to 2 big blobs of stuff for
>> an  unzip-and-run, which is still better than that install/upgrade
>> modules for days.
> 
> Why can't we just use perl's "include the following modules to be installed
> along with this copy of perl" function and static compile stuff? That should
> mean e.g. a single linux-2.4+ package should be possible.
> 

That would slow down upgrades though wouldn't it? Every time something
new is out, we need a new compiled perl with all the stuffs in it.

THe opposite of that is that it's easier to get a svn directory up to
date with the current version of each module...or at least automate the
fetching of each of them into a package without worrying about compiling
stuff everwhere.

That's just me though... :-)


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