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

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

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Ken Williams wrote:

> > One problem the current M::B faces is that it not only needs to get a
> > copy of M::B on every install (an extremely formidable task in its own
> > right)
>
> It's not too hard.  The current pass-through Makefile.PL lists M::B as a
> dependency, so CPAN.pm (and similar) will install it.

The problem is that CPAN won't follow through and finish the install of
the module you were trying to install in the first place.

However, I think the proposed Makefile.PL I sent earlier (plus tweaks from
Autrijus) does solve this problem.

Basically, what I want to see is for CPAN or CPANPLUS to be able to
install a Module::Build-using module in _one_ step.

This works right now for CPAN with the Makefile.PL I created.  Adding
support for CPANPLUS to that would probably be trivial.

So I guess I no longer am all excited about the self-install option ;)

Now is someone (cough, Ken) would get back to working on Module::Build
then _I_ could get back to working on it.  Right now I've mostly stopped
looking at it cause my patches are not being integrated.  There's more I'd
like to be able to add/fix but it's difficult to do if there's old patches
still not applied/rejected.


-dave

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