[Catalyst] packaging and porting Catalyst

[Jonathan Rockway]

Hello developers (and users),

As you may be aware, Catalyst can be difficult to install at times.  CPAN 
installations are tricky, and require the availability of a C compiler (not 
something that web developers expect to need).  So, I'd like to start an 
organized group of people willing to create binary packages for their favorite 
OS.  (Or the equivalent -- compiling packages from source is expected on 
Gentoo and the *BSDs, and a C compiler is part of the default install.  We can 
still make it easier, though.)

If you're interested, reply to the dev list indicating which distro/OS you'd 
like to work on.  I've claimed OpenBSD, and there is a gentoo portage tree in 
SVN.  However, Debian is quite out of date, and the other Linuxes seem to be 
suffering from the same problem -- the Catalyst team and the distros would 
surely appreciate your help.

The eventual goal is to be able to release updated packages with each source 
release of Catalyst, so users uncomfortable with CPAN can spend their time 
developing exciting web applications, not fighting with Makefile.PL and CPAN.

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway

-- 
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