Re: [Module::Build] codebase? paths in .tar.gz?

[Glenn L. <pe...@ne...>]

I'm no expert in the required contents of a .ppd file.  But I can't 
imagine ever wanting one that doesn't have a version.  While it is nice 
to also have the author and abstract, I can't see that having them or 
not having them makes the module more or less functional.

On approximately 12/20/2003 8:23 AM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Ken Williams:

> Hi,
> 
> I applied the documentation part of the patch, but I had already patched 
> the other stuff in a different way by the time I saw this.  Is it not 
> good to simply die() when there's no version, abstract, or author?  
> Seems like those should be required.
> 
>  -Ken
> 
> 
> On Saturday, December 20, 2003, at 04:41  AM, Randy W. Sims wrote:
> 
>>
>> This patch:
>>
>> * Moves documentation for the C<codebase> parameter to the section
>> describing the ppd action.
>>
>> * Set C<codebase> to default to the distribution name with a '.tar.gz'
>> extension. Notify user if the default is used.
>>
>> * Warn user to edit the produced PPD file if we can't determine values
>> for name, version, and abstract.
>>
>>
>> I will leave writing tutorials to someone with more literary talent than
>> I :-)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Randy.
>>
>>
>> diff -urN Module-Build-orig/lib/Module/Build/PPMMaker.pm 
>> Module-Build/lib/Module/Build/PPMMaker.pm
>> --- Module-Build-orig/lib/Module/Build/PPMMaker.pm    2003-07-25 
>> 10:15:19.000000000 -0400
>> +++ Module-Build/lib/Module/Build/PPMMaker.pm    2003-12-20 
>> 04:56:36.000000000 -0500
>> @@ -15,14 +15,23 @@
>>    my ($self, %args) = @_;
>>    my $build = delete $args{build};
>>
>> -  die "Cannot create a PPD file unless codebase argument is given\n"
>> -    unless exists $args{codebase};
>> -  my @codebase = ref $args{codebase} ? @{$args{codebase}} : 
>> ($args{codebase});
>> +  my $name         = $build->dist_name     || '';
>> +  my $author       = $build->dist_author   || '';
>> +  my $abstract     = $build->dist_abstract || '';
>> +  my $version      = $self->_ppd_version($build->dist_version) || '';
>> +
>> +  die "Cannot determine distribution name.\n" unless length($name);
>> +
>> +  warn "Missing information for PPD. Please edit before distributing.\n"
>> +    unless length($author) && length($abstract) && length($version);
>> +
>> +  unless (exists $args{codebase}) {
>> +    my $codebase = $build->dist_dir . '.tar.gz';
>> +    $args{codebase} = $codebase;
>> +    print "Using a default CODEBASE of '$codebase'\n";
>> +  }
>>
>> -  my $name         = $build->dist_name;
>> -  my $author       = $build->dist_author;
>> -  my $abstract     = $build->dist_abstract;
>> -  my $version      = $self->_ppd_version($build->dist_version);
>> +  my @codebase = ref $args{codebase} ? @{$args{codebase}} : 
>> ($args{codebase});
>>
>>    $self->_simple_xml_escape($_) foreach ($abstract, $author);
>>
>> diff -urN Module-Build-orig/lib/Module/Build.pm 
>> Module-Build/lib/Module/Build.pm
>> --- Module-Build-orig/lib/Module/Build.pm    2003-12-09 
>> 21:36:45.000000000 -0500
>> +++ Module-Build/lib/Module/Build.pm    2003-12-20 04:35:23.000000000 
>> -0500
>> @@ -575,13 +575,6 @@
>>  version.  It looks for the first line matching C<$package\s-\s(.+)>,
>>  and uses the captured text as the abstract.
>>
>> -=item codebase
>> -
>> -This can be either a single scalar string, or an array reference of
>> -strings.  It is required when creating PPD files.  It should be a URL,
>> -or URLs, to be used as the value for the C<< <CODEBASE> >> tag in the
>> -generated PPD.
>> -
>>  =back
>>
>>  =item subclass()
>> @@ -1212,6 +1205,15 @@
>>
>>  Build a PPD file for your distribution.
>>
>> +This action takes an optional argument C<codebase> which is used in
>> +the generated ppd file to specify the (usually relative) URL of the
>> +distribution. By default, this value is the distribution name without
>> +any path information.
>> +
>> +Example:
>> +
>> + perl Build ppd 
>> codebase="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/Module-Build-0.21.tar.gz"
>> +
>>  =back
>>
>>  =head2 How Installation Paths are Determined
>>
> 
> 
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