[Module-build-general] Auto-creating Makefile.PL

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

Hey list,

Here's an idea for the Makefile.PL compatibility stuff.  I'd like to 
add a new parameter to M::B->new() called 'create_makefile_pl'.  Legal 
values for the parameter would be "passthrough" or "traditional", which 
would auto-create - you guessed it - pass-through or traditional 
Makefile.PLs during the 'distdir' action (or thereabouts).

This would have the following benefits:

  * Helps people who are maintaining both a Makefile.PL and Build.PL, 
because they wouldn't have to track dependency lists in both places.

  * Helps people who use a pass-through Makefile.PL, because they 
wouldn't have to copy-paste from our latest recommendations in the docs.

If people have Makefile.PLs that do extra stuff (ask the user 
questions, sniff around for dependencies, etc.) then we couldn't really 
help them, but they probably don't want our help anyway if they're 
managing things that closely.

This idea came out of conversation with Chip Salzenberg on IRC the 
other day.

Comments?

  -Ken