Re: How do I arrange for Makefile.PL to create a modulino instance script?
On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 01:40:01AM -0700, Buddy Burden wrote: It's fairly unusually for a piece of code to be appropriate both as a stand-alone program and as a module loaded by other programs. ... Perhaps David's original question would have been more clear with a slightly more targeted footnote reference: http://www.drdobbs.com/scripts-as-modules/184416165 Not saying that I agree that such things belong on CPAN (or that I agree that they don't), but I understand the point of the exercise at least. The normal way to put such things on the CPAN (mostly because it's the way that plays nicely with the tools that we all use to install things from the CPAN) is something like this: https://github.com/DrHyde/perl-modules-CPAN-FindDependencies/blob/master/examples/cpandeps https://github.com/DrHyde/perl-modules-CPAN-FindDependencies/blob/master/lib/CPAN/FindDependencies.pm -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness Irregular English: you have anecdotes; they have data; I have proof
Re: How do I arrange for Makefile.PL to create a modulino instance script?
Buddy Burden writes: Guys, It's fairly unusually for a piece of code to be appropriate both as a stand-alone program and as a module loaded by other programs. ... Perhaps David's original question would have been more clear with a slightly more targeted footnote reference: http://www.drdobbs.com/scripts-as-modules/184416165 Thanks. Yes, I was unaware of that. But ... I'm not still not clear on the advantage of having the run function and the if caller test be in the module itself, rather than a separate file which use-s the module. Apart from anything else, it seems hard to come up with a filename which makes both a good command name for users and works well as module name in a use line by something else which wants to use the module. Cheers Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2
How do I arrange for Makefile.PL to create a modulino instance script?
module-authors: I am working on a modulino [1] and would like to use ExtUtils::MakeMaker to generate a Makefile such that make (or make all) copies the module file (lib/MyModulino.pm) to a script file (perl-bin/mymodulino.pl) and sets the execute bit. Any suggestions? TIA, David References: [1] d foy, brian, 2007, Mastering Perl, O'Reilly Media, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596527242.do
Re: How do I arrange for Makefile.PL to create a modulino instance script?
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:29 PM, David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: module-authors: I am working on a modulino [1] and would like to use ExtUtils::MakeMaker to generate a Makefile such that make (or make all) copies the module file (lib/MyModulino.pm) to a script file (perl-bin/mymodulino.pl) and sets the execute bit. Any suggestions? Why do you want to do this? I can see absolutely no reason why this would be preferable over a traditional module/script split *in a CPAN distribution* (which doesn't mean they can't be useful in other situations). The system does not look for executables in the same place as perl looks for modules, this sounds to me like you're only making things more complicated for yourself. Leon
