[Bioperl-l] No more Makefile.PL (MakeMaker -> Module::Build)

[Hilmar Lapp]

Sounds like a good thing to do to me - I'd just be hesitant to do  
this for the 1.5.2 release. But I'm not the release master.

	-hilmar

On Nov 10, 2006, at 5:15 AM, Sendu Bala wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Since I'm seeing inadequacies with the current Makefile.PL scripts we
> have, I'm thinking of converting from ExtUtils::MakeMaker and the
> Makefile.PL scripts to Module::Build Build.PL scripts.
>
> The advantages this will bring would be creation and installation of
> documentation, sane handling of required and optional dependencies,  
> and
> hopefully good META.yml output, for CPAN compatibility wrt version  
> numbers.
>
> I'll be able to use Module::Build::Compat to automatically generate
> Makefile.PL scripts in 'passthrough' style (if an end-user tries to  
> use
> Makefile.PL without having Module::Build installed, it will offer to
> install Module::Build for them) when it comes time to make
> distributions, but Makefile.PL would no longer be in CVS.
>
>
> One thing I'm not clear on with the current situation is what is
> supposed to happen when the user chooses to install scripts. Where are
> they supposed to get installed to, and where do end-users normally run
> them from and how? How does this compare to expectations from other  
> perl
> module distributions that have installable scripts?
>
>
> Please comment and discuss, but I'd like to get this done for the  
> 1.5.2
> release so that the CPAN distribution will be happy.
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