Progress on making a self-contained Titanium distribution

Today I made progress on making a self-contained distribution of the Titanium web framework.

The goal is to have a single archive file you can unpack and have a complete web framework to work with-- no more CPAN dependencies to install! You can play with it on your desktop or laptop with the built-in web server, and upload a directory to your web server when you read to go live.

After I patched the great local::lib module, I can now use this simple command to create a "Titanium" directory, into which Titanium and all of it's non-core dependencies will be installed.


perl -MCPAN -Mlocal::lib=--self-contained,Titanium -e 'install Titanium'


The next step is to hopefully eliminate required dependencies on XS code. The following modules need to be address:

• Compress::Raw::Zlib
• HTML::Parser
• Params::Validate

Params::Validate should be easy to handle, since it has a Pure Perl alternative. I haven't decided now to deal with the other two yet.

I can post an archive of what I have so far if it's of interest. The XS modules above are compiled for 'i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi'.