[Catalyst] Module::Install and prerequisites for BookDB example

[Kevin Old]

Hello everyone,

I wanted to test out Module::Install and how it works with a Catalyst
project so I downloaded the BookDB example from the repository and
did:

catalyst.pl -force -makefile BookDB

as it suggested when I corrected the missing curly brace in Build.PL
and then ran "perl Makefile.PL".

I now have a new Makefile.PL:

use inc::Module::Install;

name('BookDB');
abstract('Catalyst Application');
author('root');
version_from('lib/BookDB.pm');
license('perl');

include('ExtUtils::AutoInstall');

requires( Catalyst => '5.60' );

catalyst_files();

install_script( glob('script/*.pl') );
auto_install();
&WriteAll;


Looking at the old Build.PL (the one in svn) there are several
requirements, so I moved them into Makefile.PL:

use inc::Module::Install;

name('BookDB');
abstract('Catalyst Application');

author('root');
version_from('lib/BookDB.pm');
license('perl');

include('ExtUtils::AutoInstall');

requires( Catalyst => '5.60' );
requires( Catalyst::View::TT );
requires( Catalyst::Model::CDBI );
requires( Template::Plugin::Class );
requires( Net::Amazon );
requires( Catalyst::Plugin::DefaultEnd );
requires( Catalyst::Plugin::FillInForm );
requires( Catalyst::Plugin::FormValidator );

catalyst_files();

install_script( glob('script/*.pl') );
auto_install();
&WriteAll;

When running this the it installs a few modules, but in the case of
Catalyst::Plugin::FillInForm it does not install HTML::FillInForm and
the same for Catalyst::Plugin::FormValidator and HTML::FormValidator.

The Makefile.PL has the auto_install() line which according to the docs:

Provides auto_install() to automatically fetch and install
prerequisites via CPANPLUS.pm or CPAN.pm, specified either by the
features metadata or by method arguments.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

I'd thought about replacing the requires() statements above with
auto_install(), but am not sure if that's what it's suppose to be used
for.

Any help is appreciated,
Kevin
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Kevin Old
kevinold at gmail.com