[Catalyst] problems installing

[Christopher H. Laco]

O.M.G. The thread that won't die. :-)

Nathan, if you just want to tinker around, give this is try:
http://handelframework.com/downloads/CatInABox.tar.gz

(I feel like a broken record on that today. Maybe I need to put a link
in the wiki for CatInABox)...

Nathan Kurz wrote:
> Hello ---
> 
> I've been looking at Catalyst for a while, and for the first time
> thought I'd build a little test application with it today.  My install
> process has been, well, less than smooth.  I'm still not there, but
> while I upgrade Perl here are some notes on the workarounds I needed,
> followed by a few things that I think could be fixed to make it smoother.
> 
> install Catalyst 
>    very long, lots of dependencies, some error messages, but seemed to work
> 
> install Task::Catalyst
>    lots of problems...
> 
> look SRI/Task-Catalyst-1.50.tar.gz  
> # cpansign -v
> # exit
>     Task-Catalyst not properly signed, so fake it
> 
> install Params::Validate  
>    required for Catalyst::Log::Log4perl 
> Date::Calc  
>    required for HTML::Widget required by Catalyst::Plugin::HTML::Widget
> 
> force install RPC::XML  
>    currently test fails with error about 'modifying lvalue'
> 
> install Task::Catalyst fails again because of signing:
>   after first time substitute 'test Task::Catalyst'
> 
> Catalyst::Plugin::I18N requires I18N::LangTags::Detect,
>    which is only present in perl-5.8.6
> 
> 
> I'm a very experienced Linux Perl user, and this is one of the more
> troublesome CPAN installs that I have done.  At this point, I'm two
> hours into it, and only now am I told I need to upgrade Perl.
> 
> While some of the problems are due to the outside CPAN modules, part
> of the problem is that the base Catalyst install requires so many
> modules.  Personally, I'm going to plow through these problems until I
> get it to work, because I'm pretty excited about the Catalyst
> architecture (which seems great).  But I'm sure there are many others
> who have given up.  If keeping these potential users is important (and
> it might not be) then the install difficulty needs to be addressed.
> 
> Short term suggestions:
> 
> 1) Make sure that Task::Catalyst is signed properly.
> 2) Set overall upfront Perl version requirements to 5.8.6 
>    (or drop whatever is causing that dependency)
> 3) Add Params::Validate to dependencies for Catalyst::Log:Log4Perl
> 4) Add Date::Calc to dependencies for Catalyst::Plugin::HTML::Widget, 
>    even though it probably isn't our fault.
> 5) Maybe make whatever is using RPC::XML non-default until RPC::XML
>    can pass its tests?  Or maybe this is a Perl version error too.
> 
> Off to upgrade Perl,
> 
> Nathan Kurz
> nate at verse.com
> 
> ps.  Yell at me if you need to.  I like the architecture enough that
>      if killing the messenger seems necessary, I'll just accept it.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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