On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Michael G Schwern wrote:

>>What I am getting at is: if I want to contribute a patch to MakeMaker,
>>do I need to worry about packlists?

>Rule Of Thumb:  Don't waste your time on extending and improving
>MakeMaker. Spend your time on Module::Build instead.

I currently have a bloated Makefile.PL which does all sorts of devious
and obscure things to MakeMaker's guts in order to get the Makefile I
want.  I feel a bit guilty about this and wanted to organize the code
a bit better and get it included in MakeMaker where it could be a bit
cleaner.

But I take your advice.  I will not worry about migrating obscure
MakeMaker enhancements upstream but instead plan to switch to
Module::Build some time.

The bugs with C:\Program Files\Perl are still to do but that stuff 
seems pretty intractable since there doesn't seem to be any sane way
to quote spaces in nmake, in general.

-- 
Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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