Re: [Module::Build] Re: something broken between Module::Build, CPAN.pm, and ExtUtils::MakeMaker in 5.8.8 for UINST=1

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

On Feb 14, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Tyler MacDonald wrote:

> Ken Williams <ke...@ma...> wrote:
>> If we did that, we'd screw over people who are already maintaining
>> their Makefile.PL separately by hand.
>
> 	OK... but if they are doing that, the Makefile.PL will be in their
> *build* directory already... as far as I understand, our Makefile.PL 
> only
> needs to be generated in the *dist* directory.

Yeah, that's true.

Let me reconsider my reasoning here from scratch.  The original point 
that Adam & Yves were making, IIUIC, was that distributions should 
include a Makefile.PL.  If they don't have one at all, then of course 
we don't need to worry about clobbering one!  So I'd be fine with 
changing the default in this case to provide some flavor of Makefile.PL 
generated in the dist directory.

The main question would be what style to make it.  'traditional' is 
accessible by more people, but will often be broken (if, e.g., there 
are config questions or auto-sensing in the Build.PL they'll be lost to 
the Makefile.PL), so I'd be inclined to choose 'small' or 'passthrough' 
for this case.

That should make most people happy, no?

  -Ken