Re: [Module-build-general] ANNOUNCE: CPAN-MakeMaker-0.10

[Dave R. <au...@ur...>]

On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Brian Ingerson wrote:

> FYI. (NOTE: Even though this seems like a competitive module, I
> really think that Module::Build and CPAN::MakeMaker are somewhat
> orthoganal. I'm looking forward to working together. There is a good
> chance that these modules could nicely complement each other. Let the
> thinking begin :)

I like that self-instaling feature.  I wonder if we could/should
incorporate that for Module::Build.

Maybe we could offer a 'Build uberdist' feature or something that would
simply incorporate all of the M::B files into the tarball.  As long as
they end up untarring into the top-level of the distro (./Module,
./Module/Base.pm, etc) it'd just work.

This could even be the default for Module::Build.  Think how freaking cool
this would be!  M::B would _just work_, whenever an author chose to use
it.  This would also mean they could always use a minimal passthrough
Makefile.PL and know it'd work with existing versions of CPAN.pm and
future versions (and CPANPLUS too).

Some of the other (todo) features would be nice too, like handling
bundling of other modules and support for making PPMs.


-dave

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