On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:04:15AM -0800, chromatic wrote: > I didn't say M::B made things easier *to install*, just that I consider it > *possible* to write and maintain Build.PL files that do something more than > build, test, and install pure-Perl modules that need no customization. > > I realize this discussion has veered off toward the "But this is HARD for > END-USERS" morass, but if it's painful and difficult and unpleasant for me to > package my software, I'll find other things to do and there won't be software > for end-users to be unable to install. I don't think I'm too abnormal in > that.
I don't think so either; but hey, there's even a tool(kit) out there to ease most pain when transforming to a possible coexistance of Makefile.PL & Build.PL! It comes as package, namely Module::Build::Convert, which does try to convert the majority of nowadays available Makefile.PLs to compliant Build.PL ones. It's being shipped with a practicle frontend "shell" script named make2build. I guess, it roughly gets about 70% "right" - although this is not exactly a represantive statement as I have only tested it against a rather small bunch of CPAN distributed packages. May I suggest (as I previously did, but my requests didn't receive much attention and were warnocked) to at least honor the existance[1] of Module::Build::Convert on CPAN with a humble linkage in each, MakeMaker's & Module::Build's docs with a short outline. And then, there's even a article/howto[2]. I'm certainly regretful if it sounds like too much of avocacy, but I thought the knowledge about such a converter should be proliferated stronger so that users will be able to benefit of it (I rarely receive any feedback/suggestions/opinions, so I'd appreciate any of it!). [1] http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Module::Build::Convert [2] http://accognoscere.org/papers/perl-module-build-convert/module-build-convert.html -- You step in the stream, But the water has moved on. This page is not here.
