Re: [Module::Build] mb advice in CPAN READMEs

[Marvin H. <ma...@re...>]

On Feb 13, 2006, at 5:29 PM, David Golden wrote:

>> You don't want to use this style if during the perl Build.PL stage  
>> you ask the user questions, or do some auto-sensing about the  
>> user's environment, or if you subclass Module::Build to do some  
>> customization, because the vanilla Makefile.PL won't do any of that.
>
> So unless you're doing those things I'd say give 'traditional' a  
> try. If it works for you, then it's just that much easier for  
> others.  (And one less potential bug report to worry about.)

'traditional' doesn't work in this case, because traditional doesn't  
know about c_source, or .xs files in the lib tree.

It's not that I'm doing something with MB that can't be done with  
EUMM, it's just easier dealing with MB.

Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research
http://www.rectangular.com/