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

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

On Saturday, December 20, 2003, at 10:49  AM, Randy W. Sims wrote:

> On 12/20/2003 11:23 AM, Ken Williams wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I wavered a bit when working on the patch. I definately think that a 
> PPD file should not be released without all of the above information. 
> I guess the only concern I have is if a module does something abnormal 
> like putting the pod in a separate pod file, so that M::B doesn't find 
> the abstract; at least the author could manually fix the PPD file. 
> But, maybe it should just die, and if anyone runs into anything 
> reasonably abnormal we can make the appropriate change.

Currently it looks for the abstract & author in the same place as the 
version.  If that's not proper, the author can actually just add a 
'dist_abstract' and/or 'dist_author' parameter to the Build->new() 
method too.

  -Ken