On Saturday, August 31, 2002, at 09:17 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > As Nick pointed out, MakeMaker already has a packlist based > uninstaller. > ExtUtils::Install::uninstall(). It even has an uninstall > target which uses > it, but it's deprecated. I forget why it's deprecated. If > someone wants to investigate and undeprecate it I'd accept that.
I believe it was because it didn't work properly, or perhaps even *couldn't* work properly given the set of information available to it. > > Otherwise, I'd rather just leave packlists as they are and extend > Module::Build instead. Module::Build doesn't currently write packlists. This is a problem, and the only reason I haven't solved it so far is that I haven't yet gotten my head around all the requirements for it. It's *definitely* on the to-do list, though. Currently Module::Build development is stalled by the generous bastards at sourceforge who are taking forever to import my CVS tree. Looking a gift horse in the mouth, -Ken
