Re: [Module-build-general] [idea] readme_from => $file

[Steve P. <sp...@qu...>]

On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 08:48  pm, Ken Williams wrote:

>
> On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 10:07  AM, Steve Purkis wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm one of those people who uses pod2text to generate my README files 
>> - problem is I keep forgetting to update the README before making a 
>> dist, which is a bit annoying when you go to all the effort of 
>> updating the pod!
>>
>> So I thought perhaps this would be a good thing for Module::Build to 
>> take on -- entirely optional, of course.  Perhaps another parameter 
>> to new():
>>
>> 	readme_from => $file
>>
>> If this param existed, your README file would be generated everytime 
>> you did:
>>
>> 	./Build dist
>> 	./Build readme
>>
>> Do other people think that's a good idea?
>
> You're reading my mind!  Earlier this week I committed a patch adding 
> a "create_readme" parameter, which uses the file in dist_version_from 
> to generate a README using pod2html.  Will you need more flexibility 
> than that?

Nope, that's perfect ;).  Ta for the good news - I'll update my copy 
from cvs.

-Steve