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Re: Module::Build users -- please use the "traditional" create_makefile_pl option

by adrianh (Chancellor)
on May 20, 2005 at 13:20 UTC ( [id://458976]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Module::Build users -- please use the "traditional" create_makefile_pl option

Please, if you are a module author using Module::Build, make your work compatible with the tons of things out there that expect a normal perl install process by changing this one thing in your Build.PL and including the generated Makefile.PL in your distribution. If you someday start using actual features of Module::Build that are not supported by MakeMaker, you can change it then.

Since nobody else seems to have said it, and speaking as a fan of Module::Build, I agree completely :-) There is little point in foisting Module::Build on users unless you're using features not supported by EU::MM.

I have to admit that I've not come across a CPAN module that uses M::B that doesn't have a generated "traditional" Makefile.PL. Has it been a common problem for you?

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Re^2: Module::Build users -- please use the "traditional" create_makefile_pl option
by perrin (Chancellor) on May 20, 2005 at 13:32 UTC
    It has, actually. Several modules I wanted to use on this project have been using the passthrough style, and none of them used features of Module::Build. This cost me a fair amount of time, and it just seemed like such a waste since it could have been so easilly avoided.

      That's a pain. My sympathies. Don't suppose you want to name and shame :-)

        David Golden was kind enough to release a new version of Exception::Class::TryCatch with the option changed when I wrote to him. Then I hit some problems in the DateTime modules. I sent a note to Dave Rolsky about it. He did change it in one of his other modules in the past when asked.

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