Re: [Module-build-general] Hello and manifypods

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

On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 03:13  AM, Steve Purkis wrote:

> On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 12:26  am, Ken Williams wrote:
>>
>> Section 3 pods should probably be generated from blib/lib and 
>> blib/arch, and section 1 pods should be generated from blib/script.  
>> This is because theoretically, the process of copying lib/* to 
>> blib/lib/* and the like can do all kinds of transformations on the 
>> POD.  For instance, in Mason we can transform some special P<> tags 
>> to normal POD.
>
> Easy enough - I can just do an rscan of those dirs then.  That also 
> answers my concerns about checking for pod in .c, .xs, and other > files.

Yup.


>
> Should we also look in blib/bin for section 1 pods, or does that only 
> ever contain binaries (ie: no shell scripts)?

That's a good question - I don't *think* it ever contains shell 
scripts, but in truth I actually have no idea.  We might have to punt 
on this until we hear what the right behavior should be.


>
> Also, would it be a good idea to have a customizable set of dirs in 
> say $self->{properties}{manify} ala:
>
> 	section1 => [qw( blib/scripts )]
>     section3 => [qw( blib/lib blib/arch )]
>
> That way, if something gets missed at least the user can override it.

Yeah, that's a good idea.

  -Ken