I have a Catalyst application that uses Module::Install::Catalyst to copy in all the additional files into blib when Makefile.PL is run. The painful part is the copy -- the application is getting quite large and on some build environments this one step is taking four or five minutes to run. It's slow for developers that run the Makefile manually, but there's also delays in our automated build and test environment. So, making it faster would be nice.
I made one quick hack to copy by creating symlinks instead of copying (on platforms that support symlinks), but ran out of time. I'm now thinking about attempting this again. So, two questions: can anyone foresee any problems symlinking into blib? And second, if symlinks are not a good approach any other ideas how to speed up this process? Thanks, -- Bill Moseley mose...@hank.org
