Hello,

I'm thinking about writing an installer for Cascade. I'm looking for prior art of application installers before I re-invent another wheel.

Anyone have a recommendation for modules that are useful to write installers with? I want to query the user with a few questions, including some path names and some yes/no questions. Then various files will be copied into those locations. I'm thinking of writing for the command line environment now, but I may want to write a web-based installer later.

In my brief poking around, I found the Template::Toolkit has the kind of functionality I want, in its Makefile.PL: http://search.cpan.org/src/ABW/Template-Toolkit-2.10/Makefile.PL

It seems like there should be a slicker way, though. I looked to see what Module::Build could do for me, but it seems very focused on installing perl modules and not made to copy around arbitrary collections of files, as I'd like to.

Mark

In reply to toolkits for Perl project installers? by markjugg

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