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

[Randy W. S. <Ra...@Th...>]

On 1/14/2004 9:55 PM, Randy Kobes wrote:

> 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 html docs would be nice to have in general, not just the 
ActiveState version. There was some discussion of this before, but I 
don't think anything came of it... Ok, yeah, back on Oct 15, Kevin 
Ruscoe brought it up (in the thread "PROPOSAL: M::B should install HTML 
documentation")... Uhm, Chris Dolan said he had written a 
Module::Build::Html package for "internal company use only", but was 
willing to integrate it into M::B... nothing. It looks like it might 
possibly have been inadvertently discouraged by some @$$ who posted in 
that thread:

> There is another issue here in that the list of actions is growing quite large, and M::B is (IMHO) turning into a large monolithic module. Would it be worth the effort to re-architect actions, so that they are plug-ins (M::B::ACTION::html, M::B::ACTION::dist). This would keep M::B from becoming monolithic and would allow others to develop plug-ins to expand functionality without requiring invasive code changes. 

hmm, all this ActiveState specific stuff (ppmdist, ppd, htmldocs) 
_would_ make a nice set of plugins... ;-)

Regards,
some @$$