Re: [Module-build-general] A better passthrough Makefile.PL

[Autrijus T. <aut...@au...>]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:54:15PM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote:
>   unless (eval { require Module::Build::Compat; 1 }) {

This may very well pass whilst the M::B requirement (0.11) exceeds
the user's own version (0.10), a situation that occured to me today.

Maybe should test for the minimal M::B version here?

>       my $yn = ExtUtils::MakeMaker::prompt( '  Install Module::Build', 'y' );
>       if ($yn =~ /^y(es)?/i) {
> 	  # save this cause CPAN will chdir all over the place.
> 	  my $cwd = cwd();
> 	  my $makefile = File::Spec->rel2abs($0);
> 	  require CPAN;
> 	  CPAN->install('Module::Build');

This is largely a skeletal rework of ExtUtils::AutoInstall
functionalities.  Are you interested with the idea that I work
a M::B compatibility layer into EU::AI, and for the bootstrap
code to include the EU::AI bootstrap code that, in addition
to fetch M::B automatically, also installs the prereqs
at 'Build' time?

Thanks,
/Autrijus/