It occurs to me that, like it or not, much of the rest of the software
universe uses autoconf or autoconf-like things. Would it make Perl software
easier to install if there was a translator so people can pretend that modules
can be built like autoconf?
There could be an installed perl2configure.pl which translated autoconf
options the appropriate Makefile.PL or Build.PL and then called it. So this...
perl2configure.pl --prefix=~
becomes
Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=~
or
Build.PL --installl_base=~
It then creates an intermediate Makefile to perform translations between it's
make targets and options and ours.
Doesn't seem like it's a whole lot of work to get it going with the basic
autoconf options. Devil's in the details to get all the many options right,
especially all the make options. It wouldn't have to be shipped with modules,
perl2configure.pl would be installed.
Does this seem useful at this late a date?
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