Re: [Module-build-general] Question about Defaults ...

[Michael G S. <sc...@po...>]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:45:17PM -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> > Since I think this is a very good approach, I started to look into
> > your module if I could convert to your way of installing.
> > Unfortunately I found out that you are expecting all module files (.pm
> > or .xs) sitting in the directory "lib/".  But this directory structure
> > is not the default structure when you are starting your development by
> > using "h2xs".
> 
> h2xs for module creation needs to die along with MakeMaker ;)

Seconded.

> > My question is, what is the reason for this requirement ?  And is
> > there a possibility to switch off this behavior ?  Of course, I know
> > how to accomplish your requirement :-).  But this would mean that I
> > have to fiddle about the directory structure after running the initial
> > h2xs.
> 
> I think Ken did this cause it's easy ;)

For my $0.02, I've always felt all the alternative layout options in
MakeMaker (I think there's three) are just unnecessarily confusing and
complicated.  I don't think Module::Build should bother.  

It might want to include some way to customize the behavior, probably via 
overriding the "find my modules" methods which are currently hard-coded
in ACTION_build and ACTION_manifypods.  That feels cleanest and actively
improves the structure of M::B.


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