John, I've had much the same experience here. It's frustrating to say the least. I'm quite happy with Catalyst once it's installed, but the initial setup has been quite difficult for me each time I've tried it. I need to upgrade again, and I've been putting it off just because of this issue.
<br><br>It's usually the dependencies that have issues for me. In particular, I think I've routinely had trouble with Module::Build, among others. Next time I try, I'll be sure to keep a log of exactly what happens.<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Napiorkowski</b> <<a href="mailto:jjn1056@yahoo.com">jjn1056@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm just asking for people experiences trying to<br>install catalyst. I've done a lot of web searches and<br>all I get is that using catalyst is as easy as having<br>a modern version of perl and typing "perl -MCPAN<br>
-e'install Task::Catalyst'" but that hasn't been the<br>case for me.<br><br>My typical experience with installing catalyst is that<br>CPAN tries to install what appears to be hundreds of<br>prerequisites and then dies for various reasons.
<br>Typical one of more of the required files dies but<br>it's hard to tell since each required file seems to<br>spawn off a dozen new required files and I kind of get<br>lost as to what is dying and for which reason.<br>
<br>I figured my perl was just way out of date so I tried<br>downloading perl5.8.8 and compiling a fresh install<br>from scratch. Pretty much the same trouble.<br><br>I find I can get Catalyst installed after about a day
<br>of messing around and liberally using force installs,<br>but of course I am not sure if that is so good. I've<br>tried installing Catalyst on FedoraCore2, Cento4.2 and<br>the most recent version fo Ubuntu linux. I also tried
<br>installing it on Activestate Perl for Windows but gave<br>up completely in that one :)<br><br>I am not asking anyone to solve my problems. I just<br>want to hear from you all if my experiences are just<br>plain strange or if this is the norm? I understand
<br>Catalyst is in heavy development so there are bound to<br>be troubles, but I just need to know if this is<br>something I can really start to rely on for my new<br>projects. Other people clearly are, so I am just<br>really confused that I am having so much trouble with
<br>this. To be honest if I spend days trying to set it<br>up on my clients servers that is not going to look too<br>good. So please your honest opinions.<br><br>John<br><br>__________________________________________________
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