Adrian Howard wrote: > > On 13 Sep 2006, at 05:37, Michael G Schwern wrote: > [snip] >> (For the sarcasm impaired, if you're just going to store the whole >> post-install source tarball you might as well just grab it from CPAN >> again) > [snip] > > Isn't the post-install source tree potentially different in useful ways > from the pre-install source tree?
I'd wager that at least 90% of all modules neither modify their code before installation nor change the behavior of "make/Build test". There are two common exceptions. 1) Installing Perl scripts which only change the #! line and 2) Installing XS which generates new files. In both cases you have the altered files already installed to test against. Archiving installed source dists might be useful, but I don't think its generally useful. Which is to say, write a tool to do it but don't build it into the existing installation tools.
