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

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

On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 12:16  PM, Dave Rolsky wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Ken Williams wrote:
>
>> 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).
>
> I'm all for the pass-through version, but I think we should discourage
> parallel files.  If there's problems with the pass-through version, 
> let's
> find them and fix them.

I'm not sure we'll always be able to fix the problems in either the 
pass-through or the traditional versions.  Both seem like they'll 
always have their particular gotchas.

  -Ken