Comments on: Setting up a Catalyst development environment

By: tphyahoo

tphyahoo — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:23:53 +0000

Regarding setting catalyst up on a shared server, the situation may be improving. See recent posts at http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/Dreamhost . To be truthful, I am still in the information gathering stage and haven’t really started installing this, after my initial attempts went awary. But judging by comments on the mailing list, it may not be as bad as all that.

By: Bonobo

Bonobo — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:34:28 +0000

Sorry to say, but this is a disappointing doc. The title implies that there is going to be some tips on setting up a dev environment and the reality is that it only tells how (or not to) install Catalyst on *nix or windows.
Where are the build tips? For example how about giving details on setting up a multi user development environment with instructions for configuring apache to allow users to develop and test their apps?
We run a build environment (and we are EXTREMELY new to catalyst) where all users have a development environment to build their own apps within their home directories. The apps can then run by setting up apache & mod_perl so the url for the app is http://www.somesite.org/~user/perl/MyApp

I dont know if this is the best way, thats why I was looking for a doc like this.
Sorry dude.

By: HarryF

HarryF — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:45:06 +0000

Also can’t remember right now if there’s other Ubuntu packages needing installation for CPAN “to work”, e.g. build tools. Will fill in some other time.

OK – checked out with an clean Ubuntu install – forgot Ubuntu doesn’t have gcc – fix with;

$ sudo apt-get install gcc

By: HarryF

HarryF — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:38:55 +0000

Uck. Was this a link farm or an attempt at a tutorial? What was the point again? How to get something installed on Windows, or that we should be all be using Linux anyway?

Just recording notes on an ongoing experience with Catalyst (see here , here and here) ) and covering issues which don't show up in the Catalyst docs. I'm assuming general technical proficiency but not in-depth knowledge of Perl or Catalyst. Meanwhile avoiding a step-by-step tutorial as it's not needed - the Catalyst docs are good plus there's a ton of general material on Perl. And there isn't time anyway. My apologies if it reads like a stream of consciousness. Should get a little more meaty soon.

By: willthiswork

willthiswork — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:25:30 +0000

Uck. Was this a link farm or an attempt at a tutorial?

Or maybe it was simply an interesting multipart post to read?
O_O

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:56:45 +0000

Uck. Was this a link farm or an attempt at a tutorial? What was the point again? How to get something installed on Windows, or that we should be all be using Linux anyway?