Tyler MacDonald wrote:
Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
The current behaviour is to not create a Makefile.PL during
"./Build", only create it when "distdir" is run. However, the "distdir"
action creates "Makefile.PL" in the current directory and then copies it
over.
It's not so simple a change. The Makefile.PL gets generated by
"distmeta", which "distdir" depends on. "distmeta" also generates
README and META.yml.
I tend to run distmeta before checking in a release, so I have exactly
the Makefile.PL, README, and META.yml that get packaged up and uploaded
to CPAN.
I don't think anything that could clobber files should be switched on by
default. That's just asking for trouble.
Regards,
David Golden
