On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > And even though there are ways around it for tests, what about for the > > install process? What if I need to run a few as part of the 'make > > install' bit? How else can I make that happen besides fiddling with the > > Makefile text itself? > > There is currently no safe way to do it, and I have no good way to > solve that short of a massive reconstruction of MM's interface. See > also "Module::Build". :) > > MakeMaker has reached the end of it's operational life cycle. I'm > just ensuring it holds together until MB is ready to take over.
And all I'm suggesting is that because there is no other way to do this stuff, that when you change the text in the generated Makefile, that you at least document that it has changed, so people can test their ugly hacks against the new version. -dave /*================== www.urth.org we await the New Sun ==================*/
