[Catalyst] Is it normal to have lots of trouble installing catalyst?

[apv]

Before 5.5, or so, Catalyst was a much easier install. It turned
up nothing I didn't already have. The new NEXT scheme is
very nice though and probably worth the cost of bringing in
so much dependency.

The major problem I had and sounds like you did too was
broken prerequisite chains in the dependency (not
Catalyst modules but package like Test::Warn, IIRC).
So it would ask 15 times "do you want to follow?" but
then fail b/c it ended up doing them in the wrong order.
I think this is just bound to happen sometimes when
you're trying to do 60 new interlinked modules.

I installed two or three of the trouble makers on their own
and then tried Catalyst again and it worked fine. I was
using the regular CPAN shell.

It was a hassle and if I hadn't already had some
success with Catalyst in earlier versions I might
have given up.

-Ashley

On Tuesday, February 7, 2006, at 10:24  AM, John Napiorkowski wrote:
> I'm just asking for people experiences trying to
> install catalyst.  I've done a lot of web searches and
> all I get is that using catalyst is as easy as having
> a modern version of perl and typing "perl -MCPAN
> -e'install Task::Catalyst'" but that hasn't been the
> case for me.
>
> My typical experience with installing catalyst is that
> CPAN tries to install what appears to be hundreds of
> prerequisites and then dies for various reasons.
> Typical one of more of the required files dies but
> it's hard to tell since each required file seems to
> spawn off a dozen new required files and I kind of get
> lost as to what is dying and for which reason.
>
> I figured my perl was just way out of date so I tried
> downloading perl5.8.8 and compiling a fresh install
> from scratch.  Pretty much the same trouble.
>
> I find I can get Catalyst installed after about a day
> of messing around and liberally using force installs,
> but of course I am not sure if that is so good.  I've
> tried installing Catalyst on FedoraCore2, Cento4.2 and
> the most recent version fo Ubuntu linux.  I also tried
> installing it on Activestate Perl for Windows but gave
> up completely in that one :)
>
> I am not asking anyone to solve my problems.  I just
> want to hear from you all if my experiences are just
> plain strange or if this is the norm?  I understand
> Catalyst is in heavy development so there are bound to
> be troubles, but I just need to know if this is
> something I can really start to rely on for my new
> projects.  Other people clearly are, so I am just
> really confused that I am having so much trouble with
> this.  To be honest if I spend days trying to set it
> up on my clients servers that is not going to look too
> good.  So please your honest opinions.
>
> John
>
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