[Module-build-general] Re: META.yaml in Module-Build dist

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

After sending this I started to compare with what MM does.

With MM you pass NAME and VERSION or VERSION_FROM. Where NAME
is a module name. You can optionally pass DISTNAME

and DISTNAME defaults to NAME =~ s/::/-/g

So maybe all that sneeded is for another method + yaml entry
for distname.

Also read your docs. The autosplit call. Why do you need it ?
MM does a scan of each .pm for /^use AutoSplit/ to determine
which need splitting.

Graham.

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 10:30:26AM +1000, Ken Williams wrote:
> Hi Graham,
> 
> You're right, I'll change the name to the distribution name.  
> Regarding the version, it should be settable in the Build.PL if 
> it doesn't come from a module, just like in MakeMaker.  Is there 
> something that needs fixing there?  Perhaps the 'module_name', 
> 'module_version', and 'module_version_from' parameters are 
> misnamed in the new() method, since they (should) really refer 
> to the distribution, not a module.  Is this what you mean?
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions.
> 
>   -Ken
> 
> On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 12:44 AM, Graham Barr wrote:
> 
> > Ken,
> >
> > I am looking forward to having a meta file in distributions so
> > that search can start using it. However I was reading the fail
> > in the Module-Build distribution. It contains the line
> >
> > name: Module::Build
> >
> > I would suggest that this is wrong. A distribution is not one module
> > and the meta file should be about the distribution. IMO that line
> > should be
> >
> > name: Module-Build
> >
> > consider distributions like libnet, libwww-perl or any other
> > distribution that contains many modules.
> >
> > The same goes for the version. In these distribution that
> > have many modules, the version of the distribution is
> > not always extracted from one of the modules.
> >
> > Graham.
>