On Friday, January 11, 2002, at 01:40 PM, Ken Williams wrote: > MOTIVATIONS > There are several reasons I wanted to start over, and not > just fix what I didn't like about MakeMaker: > > o I don't like the core idea of MakeMaker, namely that > "make" should be involved in the build process. Here > are my reasons: > > + When a person is installing a Perl module, what > can you assume about their environment? Can you > assume they have "make"? No, but you can assume > they have some version of Perl.
for a caveat to Make not existing purely in Perl, see makepp: http://makepp.sourceforge.net/ It is a syntax-compatible drop-in replacement for make. But also can be extended with Perl
