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

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

On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 01:12  AM, Dave Rolsky wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Ken Williams wrote:
>> This is kind of tough to test out - Dave, how did you test this before?
>
> I tested this by uploading a module to CPAN with this Makefile.PL
> (Thesaurus 0.21) and installing it.  Very elegant ;)

Heh - that's sort of a "plan Z" scenario.

> FWIW, it did work quite well.  I think your change above may work just 
> as
> well.  If anyone knows of a way to force CPAN to install something 
> from a
> tarball (as opposed to fetching the tarball from elsewhere), that'd be
> very helpful in testing this sort of stuff.

I'll see if I can figure that out.

  -Ken