Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If we did that, we'd screw over people who are already maintaining
> their Makefile.PL separately by hand.
OK... but if they are doing that, the Makefile.PL will be in their
*build* directory already... as far as I understand, our Makefile.PL only
needs to be generated in the *dist* directory.
The current behaviour is to not create a Makefile.PL during
"./Build", only create it when "distdir" is run. However, the "distdir"
action creates "Makefile.PL" in the current directory and then copies it
over.
The generated Makefile.PL's first line clearly says "auto-generated
by Module::Build::Compat"... soooo if somebody was maintaining a Makefile.PL
manually, we could easily auto-detect that by checking for the presence of
that line. Maybe echo a Big Fat Warning on the distdir action as well, if
they havent explicitly set "create_makefile_pl => skip".
Do you think that would make everybody happy?
> Not everybody has as many modules to maintain as we do, Tyler. =)
Hah, you're way ahead of me on that one. ;) What scares me is how
many *nearly* complete modules i have sitting in my CVS tree that need just
a few more changes to be ready... each night I load up one and add a few
more methods/test cases/etc and think that's the night it's going to be
ready to release just to find a whole days' worth of work I hadn't
considered...
- Tyler
