Re: [PATCH] Re: [Module-build-general] Breaking CPAN installs..

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

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:43:54AM -0400, Soren A wrote:
> Aha. OK. Confession: how dumb I really do feel at this moment. I haven't
> been thinking about M::B for too long. So, ...
> 
> When I wrote previously that "I tried Michael's patch with the first
> CPAN module that uses Module::Build that I could lay hands on, M::B it's
> self", that didn't make a lot od sense, did it? Actually, is it true as
> I now realize that *using good 'ol CPAN.pm*, the *only* package out
> there that's going to use Module::Build to build itself is
> Module::Build, itself ("Who's on First" -- whaa? that's what I'm asking,
> you dope, who's on first?")? because calling `make' is so hardwired in
> to CPAN.pm? It's always going to try to build modules the same way.

AFAIK nobody's seriously tried patching CPAN.pm for Module::Build.  I doubt
it would be easy.


> I used CPAN to fetch-prepare-install Ken's Path::Class a minute ago and
> the discomforting realization of my ignorance hit me. So are we just
> waiting for the world to shift to CPANPLUS?

Pretty much.

Fortunately the Module::Build Makefile.PL compatibility wrapper is pretty
good so its pretty moot.


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Michael G Schwern        sc...@po...  http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
If it's stupid, but it works, it isn't stupid.