Re: [Module::Build] [PATCH] ppm_dist action

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

On Wednesday, January 14, 2004, at 10:09  AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> But why do I get errors during "perl build.pl" telling me that the 
> files built by the build step are not present at the "perl build.pl" 
> step?  As far as I can determine, they shouldn't be.  A similar 
> warning for META.yml and README showed up when I did "perl build.pl" 
> for the Module-Build.zip above.  Such warnings do not engender 
> confidence in the module, or in the M::B process.

Well, they're errors - errors *shouldn't* inspire confidence.  They 
indicated the real problems Randy explained.


> I'm assuming that for distribution for PPM users, that I will never 
> need to use  "perl build dist"... so the "differing content" in the 
> .tar.gz file build by "dist" vs "ppm_dist" won't annoy me... but will 
> it annoy others, that want to do both types of distributions?

Nah.  A regular distribution on CPAN is a source distribution that 
downloaders build themselves.  A PPM is a pre-built binary 
distribution.  They're meant to have very different contents.

  -Ken