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

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

On Wednesday, January 14, 2004, at 08:55  PM, Randy Kobes wrote:
> Unfortunately, the ppm utility is pretty picky about
> about the structure of the associated codebase archive -
> it can have any name one wants (as long as it's specified
> as such in the ppd file), but it should unpack into a
> top-level blib/ directory, so as to have the structure
>    blib/arch/
>    blib/bin/
>    blib/lib/
> etc. As well, if one wanted to include html documentation,
> it should go under
>   blib/html/site/lib/
> If ppm finds such html docs, it will install them in the
> user's Perl/html/ tree, and update the main index.html
> accordingly. If there's interest, I have some code around
> that could generate such docs from the pod/pm files in the
> distribution - it wouldn't be too hard to supply a M::B
> patch to do so.

Oh, I see - I guess people don't actually manually unpack these PPMs, 
do they.  Then I guess I don't care *what* it unpacks to. ;=)

I'm not jumping up & down for the HTML docs, but I'll apply a patch if 
you give me one.

In the meantime I think I'll apply your PPM patch, with a little mod to 
change the generated filename.

  -Ken