Module::Install is two separate wrappers around ExtUtils::MakeMaker, an install-time only wrapper and an author-time only wrapper.
It just happens that as an author installing Module::Install you get both layers installed, and the two layers switch intelligently so that the same "requires" command could dispatch to two different functions for installers and authors. Adam K On 10 March 2011 07:09, Christopher J. Madsen <p...@cjmweb.net> wrote: > On 3/8/2011 11:15 PM, Adam Kennedy wrote: >> On 8 March 2011 12:56, Christopher J. Madsen <p...@cjmweb.net> wrote: >>> Dist::Zilla is the first attempt to separate the authoring role from the >>> installing role that's achieved significant traction. As such, it will >>> never replace the "installing" side of MakeMaker or MB. There's been >>> some talk about an "Install::Zilla" to implement the installing role, >>> but AFAIK nobody's started working on that yet. >> >> >> *AHEM* Module::Install *COUGH* >> >> While M:I may be about 30% evil, it does essentially the same thing, >> detaching a small subset of itself (the non-Admin classes) and >> bundling them as the ::Installer half of itself. >> >> You're in crufty I-Didn't-Write-This-Stuff-I-Just-Maintain-It'ship > > I don't think I understand your point. I've never used Module::Install, > but I thought it was basically just a wrapper around MakeMaker. > > By "Install::Zilla" I mean a Module::Build-like tool, but one that has > no support for the authoring role. It wouldn't bundle itself into > dists; it would just use configure_requires along with a Build.PL that > said "use Install::Zilla" instead of "use Module::Build". It wouldn't > be tightly coupled to Dist::Zilla. > > > I've thought of another way to split Module::Build into separate dists > for installing and authoring that may work better than my first proposal. > > Module-Build would become the installer-only dist. The authoring-type > actions would be replaced with stubs that tried to load > Module::Build::Authoring and redispatch to that. If > Module::Build::Authoring was not installed, the stub would print a > message saying that you need to install it from CPAN in order to run > that command. > > -- > Chris Madsen p...@cjmweb.net > -------------------- http://www.cjmweb.net -------------------- > >
