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

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

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