Re: [Module::Build] Wrapup: Are there any open issues I haven't recently addressed?

[Randy W. S. <ml...@th...>]

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 12:20:27PM -0400, Randy W. Sims wrote:
> 
>>After losing my notes, I'm at a little bit of a disadvantage.
>>
>>If there are any open issues that I haven't responded to in the last few 
>>days or that are not already logged in RT, please let me know.
> 
> 
> Don't know if this is the kind of thing you mean, but you didn't weigh
> in on this:

Yes, thanks. I'll probably put this on the list for after 0.28. This 
goes with a class of issues I had wanted to look at at some point in the 
future regarding all files that are generated. For example, should 
META.yml and README (if auto-generated) be created only in the 
'distdir', not generated in the root of the build?

Randy.

> On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:49:44PM -0600, Ken Williams wrote:
> 
>>On Jan 23, 2006, at 6:43 AM, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I raised this question once before, in particular about Module::Build
>>>itself.  If a module only has auto_features, not features or
>>>config_data, would it cause any harm to have the ConfigData module
>>>built at the time of distmeta and included in the distribution?
>>
>>Hmm, I never thought about it in exactly those terms before.  I can't
>>think of any problem myself.  I suppose you'd get different results
>>just because the version of M::B that builds the ConfigData module is
>>going to be the one on the author's machine, not the user's, but that's
>>probably not a big deal (or perhaps it's even mildly desirable).
>>
>> -Ken