On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Edward Avis wrote: > > Of course I wouldn't be the one doing it anyway, so it's really none of > my business, but I just want to say that as a MakeMaker _user_ I > wouldn't expect such a service or have any right to expect it. I think > that people who do ugly hacks against the generated Makefile (and I have > a _lot_ of them myself) really just deserve what they get. In practice > such hacks are often necessary, but also in practice you cannot get > bogged down in documenting every internal Makefile change.
Except that the hacks are A) necessary to do useful things and B) more or less suggested by the ExtUtils::MM_Unix docs! Anyway, Michael said he'll test new versions against some of the funkier modules (like the ones I'm involved in) and let the authors know if the changes break things. That sounds good to me. But please get off your high horse and recognize that for a long time MM has been the only way to install things (that has now changed with Module::Build) and MM has no decent interface for customization. And even if it's not feasible to document it every time the MakeMaker text changes, it's probably worth letting the world know (as best as is possible) that the new MM versions may break this and that people who need this Makefile-mucking to work had best be on their toes. -dave /*================== www.urth.org we await the New Sun ==================*/
