Re: [Module-build-general] Article on perl.com

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

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:

> Please send me your patch to CPAN.pm that supports Build.PL. I cannot
> promise that I can work on it (tuits, tuits!), but I'll at least
> consider doing it.

It's after my sig.  It's against 1.59_54 but it may just apply cleanly
against the latest, for all I know.  I'm pretty sure it works ;)

One thing it could do better is prereq handling.  Right now it just reads
in _build/prereq and parses it, but it should really load Module::Build
and ask it about the prereqs instead.  This is what CPANPLUS currently
does.

> Let's imagine, Module::Build could write an *equivalent* Makefile.PL.
> One that could then be used with ExtUtils::MakeMaker (and without
> Module::Build). If that were possible (even just for 80% of the
> modules out there), that would convince many developers to switch, as
> they would just distribute both Build.PL and Makefile.PL (no
> duplicated work). The result would not bother anybody among the user
> community, as they would not even notice that Module::Build had been
> working. For the 20% of complicated modules, Module::Build could just
> die() with a few FIXME messages and that might be an incentive to many
> a developer to actually produce patches. Maybe I'm missing something,
> and surely this has been discussed before, but if you could discuss
> this idea, I'd be interested to hear your arguments.

I'm not sure I understand what you're suggesting.  Are you saying that
"./Build dist" could write out a Makefile.PL script?  That's not a bad
idea, I suppose.


-dave

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