Re: [PATCH] Re: [Module-build-general] Breaking CPAN installs..
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From: Ken W. <ke...@ma...> - 2003-08-28 13:51:14
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On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 03:43 AM, 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.
Actually, any distribution that includes a "passthrough" or "small"
Makefile.PL (as described in Module::Build::Compat) will also be built
by CPAN using Module::Build. However, there aren't many of those at
the moment on CPAN as far as I know.
> 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? Hmmm, now I have to (after
> some sleep) hit the Fine Documentation.
What happened with Path::Class? It's got a normal Makefile.PL that
uses MakeMaker, so it should have worked fine with the 'verbose' flag
even before Schwern's patch.
-Ken
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