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jon at jrock

Oct 29, 2006, 3:55 PM

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packaging and porting Catalyst

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 However, Debian is quite out of date, and the other Linuxes seem to be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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ash at cpan

Oct 29, 2006, 4:06 PM

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Re: packaging and porting Catalyst [In reply to]

Jonathan Rockway wrote:

> [snip] Debian is quite out of date

http://packages.debian.org/testing/perl/libcatalyst-perl

I've not actually tested it, but it claims to be 5.7003. Cat-Dev is
under an unrelated module with an obscure name of `libcatalyst-modules-perl'

Perhaps we should get them to mention that if you wish to develop you
will need this package as well.

At the very least we can make a not of this on a webpage somewhere
(John: a set of pages "installing on X" could be useful)

Ash

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hkclark at gmail

Oct 29, 2006, 4:55 PM

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Re: packaging and porting Catalyst [In reply to]

On 10/29/06, Jonathan Rockway <jon [at] jrock> wrote:
> 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.
>

There was a thread earlier today where we were discussing CentOS 4
(RedHat Enterprise 4) earlier today (see
http://lists.rawmode.org/pipermail/catalyst/2006-October/010165.html).
It's too early to say if anything will come of it. However, if there
are others interested in CentOS/RHEL, please let us know.

Thanks!
Kennedy

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jon at jrock

Nov 1, 2006, 11:42 AM

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Re: packaging and porting Catalyst [In reply to]

Alex Pavlovic wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> I can build freebsd packages.
>

Thanks for the interest. I've heard reports of up-to-date FreeBSD ports
for -Runtime and -Devel, but there are probably still a variety of
plugins (etc.) that aren't easily installable. If you'd like to either
help with those or contact the current maintainer about helping with
-Runtime and -Devel, that would be great. If you need anything like svn
space, testers, etc., I'd be happy to provide. (I need to get a FreeBSD
image going under qemu or Xen first, though :)

Again, thanks!

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway

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