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

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

On approximately 1/14/2004 6:55 PM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Randy Kobes:

> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Ken Williams wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 08:46  PM, Randy W. Sims wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>* For backwards compatibility (not really sure it's
>>>>neccessary at this point, but...) I'd suggest leaving
>>>>the 'ppd' action as is, and create a new 'ppm_dist'
>>>>action that runs the 'ppd' action and creates an
>>>>archive of the blib directory, running the 'build'
>>>>action if neccessary. Ken?
>>>
>>>Attached is a patch that adds a new 'ppm_dist' action.
>>>It accepts a 'codebase' argument just like the 'ppd'
>>>action. This action runs the 'ppd' action and then
>>>builds an archive of the blib directory. Glenn, this
>>>should allow you to "install on the same machine it is
>>>built on".  The 'ppd' action remains unchanged. Please
>>>let me know if this patch is correct.
>>
>>It changes the semantics of the make_tarball() method a
>>bit - I think we probably also want to make the tarball
>>unpack to a name matching the filename people download.
>>So I think maybe we should copy blib/ to a new directory
>>(once the naming issue is solved) and then tarball it up,
>>using the same old make_tarball() method.
> 
> 
> 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.

I think it would be a nice addition to M::B to generate the HTML docs 
for ppm_dist, since that seems to be the model promulgated by 
ActiveState.  And that reminds me, I need to figure out how to use POD 
someday, now that I've written a [trivial] module :)

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