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

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 12:29  AM, David Wheeler wrote:

> On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 07:17  PM, Ken Williams wrote:
>
>> This is probably pretty important for generic application 
>> installation.  It's also a good way to make installation more 
>> intuitive (here's *why* the build failed).
>>
>> Unfortunately I don't have a great answer to this problem.  Autrijus, 
>> weren't you working on something like this a while back, or am I 
>> remembering wrong?
>
> Actually, I think that was me. I developed App::Info to manage non-Perl 
> dependencies, and I think that it could work very nicely with M::B. 
> Unfortunately, I don't have much time to work on it at the moment, but 
> it's definitely on my To Do list.
>
> App::Info is on the CPAN, for those of you who are interested.

Ah yes!  Thanks for piping up, that's what I was thinking of.  I'm 
installing now to check it out.

  -Ken