Tyler MacDonald wrote:
Seriously though, it sounds like having at least a loud warning "I
did not write this Makefile.PL, move it out of the way first" is worthwhile.
Pseudocode:
if ($mb->overwrite_makefile() && -f $Makefile ) {
my $answer = $mb->y_n("Found an existing Makefile.PL; overwrite?");
if ($answer =~/y/i) {
write_makefile;
}
}
where overwrite_makefile is a package option passed to M::B::new(). I
did it this way so that
a) the developer has to affirmatively choose that option;
b) the developer has to _always_ hit 'Y' when running './Build distdir',
just in case he/she did something manually and forgot to turn off the
option.
John
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