Hello,

after playing around with the MakeMaker module for a while I still couldn't
figure out if I can use it to install a whole application. Using MakeMaker
for modules is clear and works for me so far but my application also
contains a CGI-script, some textual documentation, some images and
XSL-stylesheets located in an htdocs-directory and some binaries. All files
should be copied to an installation directory and the administrator is
requested to add 'Alias' and 'ScriptAlias' directives to it's Apache
configuration...

>From what I found out so far the module-related things like
manpage-generation, dependency checks, targets for cleaning and so on are
exactly what I am looking for, but for a complete application some simple
copying is required too.

Is MakeMaker the wrong tool for this task ? Do I have to invent the wheel
and write my own installation script ? Or can this be done somehow with a
simple "perl Makefile.PL" ?

regards...Andy


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