Re: Makefile target text changes

2002-04-07 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Dave Rolsky wrote: And all I'm suggesting is that because there is no other way to do this stuff, that when you change the text in the generated Makefile, that you at least document that it has changed, so people can test their

Re: Makefile target text changes

2002-04-07 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Edward Avis wrote: Of course I wouldn't be the one doing it anyway, so it's really none of my business, but I just want to say that as a MakeMaker _user_ I wouldn't expect such a service or have any right to expect it. I think that people who do ugly hacks against the

Re: Makefile target text changes

2002-04-07 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Dave Rolsky wrote: But please get off your high horse and recognize that for a long time MM has been the only way to install things (that has now changed with Module::Build) and MM has no decent interface for customization. Oh,

Re: Makefile target text changes

2002-04-07 Thread Ken Williams
On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 08:35 AM, Edward Avis wrote: So please, use whatever means necessary to clean out the Augean stable that is MakeMaker - On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 08:44 AM, Dave Rolsky wrote: But please get off your high horse ... It's those damn high horses that created

Re: Makefile target text changes

2002-04-07 Thread Ken Williams
On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 10:28 AM, Dave Rolsky wrote: Seriously, I like the plan of trying to get Module::Build into shape for 5.8.1. Likewise. I may propose a lightning talk at TPC for marketing. This probably means updating CPAN to be Module::Build-aware. Does Andreas read this

Re: Makefile target text changes

2002-04-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:01:04PM +1000, Ken Williams wrote: Andreas didn't respond. He may not have time (or interest) in it, perhaps p5p is the best place to go. Andreas was generally offline dealing with Real Life for the past many months, but he seems to be back on. So I'd just try

INSTALLDIRS=vendor implemented, PREFIXing basically complete

2002-04-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
The TODO list just got a whole lot smaller. http://www.makemaker.org/src/ExtUtils-Makemaker-snap.tgz PREFIXification is pretty much completely implemented. This bit of the docs sums it up: INSTALLDIRS set to perlsite