[Catalyst] Here's my shot at an app to install Catalyst Dependencies

[John Napiorkowski]

All these suggestions are great.  I think my next step
is to create a better version of this installer that
is just a single perl script that can also handle
downloading and installing a few of the binary
requirements, such as the stuff for the XML modules.
It would be best if this script ran some tests to make
sure everything go installed properly.

After that I can think about creating the auto build
system that has been envisioned. In the end if I am
going to keep this up to date with the pace of
catalyst development I will certainly need it :)

The way I am doing this now is that I have Unbuntu
running in a VMWARE instance.  So I can test the
script against a custom compiled perl installation and
then blow away the perl directory and rebuild it with
'make install' from my downloaded perl source
directory.  Right now this is manual for me, but it's
not so many steps.  I can let it crank away while I am
doing other things.

The next two days I need to focus on my paying
project, and try to look at this again over the
weekend.  If anyone get's a change to play with it
please let me know your results.

There were a few bugs in the version I posted earlier
today, attached is a better version (but still just a
bash script)

--john

--- "A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis at gmx.de> wrote:

> * Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> [2006-02-09
> 15:00]:
> >Very cool. Should be possible to do
> >
> >use CPAN;
> >
> >CPAN->install("module");
> >...
> >
> >so you can turn it into a single perl script.
> 
> And then also supply tarballs of everything and do
> some
> Cwd+File::Spec magic to change
> `$CPAN::Config->{urllist}` to an
> appropriate location. Put these tarballs all
> together in a
> tarball which goes into the `__DATA__` section in
> the installer
> script. Make sure it can take an `--install-base`
> option and
> twiddle `$CPAN::Config` accordingly and you’re
> golden.
> 
> And do all this by writing a meta script that
> generates such a
> selfcontained installer by taking a list of modules
> and using the
> CPAN.pm API to fetch the respective tarballs. If you
> want, throw
> some CPAN::Unwind and Module::Corelist magic into
> this meta
> script to make it easier to create the list in the
> first place.
> 
> The result would be a one-stop shop self-extracting
> installer:
> people download `catalyst-setup.pl` and run it, and
> it unwraps
> itself and uses the CPAN shell to install everything
> from its
> belly into the Perl installation in the right order
> and without
> hitting the network.
> 
> And the meta script would make it relatively
> painless to keep the
> SFX up-to-date.
> 
> Sounds very doable to me; and it would be
> *extremely* useful for
> creating shrink-wrap web applications for end users.
> I’d get
> right on the meta script if I had the tuits right
> now.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
> 
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