On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 10:32:57PM +0200, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > Let me withdraw what I said. I think, it's OK as you suggest. But we > should offer the user the option to not filling in anything into any > file except into the Makefile.PL and leaving all the work to > MakeMaker. That way we would have a very smooth transition path, > higher acceptance, less intrusion into the developers' working place. Sure. With no extra information the should get what make ppd does now. But they should be able to seed the file by giving a template. > Ideally, we would change what 'make dist' is doing now without asking > the user to do anything. Yes, I belive it should create the OSD file and include it, even though it is not specified in the MANIFEST. Maybe it should add it to the MANIFEST that is included if it is not specified in there already. Graham.
