On 2004-11-28, at 11:17:53 +0100, Tels wrote:
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> Helo!
>
> On Saturday 27 November 2004 10:52, Marcus Holland-Moritz wrote:
> > On 2004-11-26, at 19:48:59 +0100, Tels wrote:
> > > Thanx for the pointers. The MY::metafile routine in Convert-Binary does
> > > have a few problems, though:
> >
> > I didn't advertise it as being the best WTDI... ;-)
>
> :o) Sorry that I sounded to negative.
Never mind!
> > > * if YAML is not installed, it would silenty drop the generation and
> > > fallback
> >
> > That's fine for me as the developer. I do have YAML installed.
> > But you're right, the warning doesn't hurt.
>
> Especially if you ever start developing on a machine were you forget to
> install YAML :)
I'm used to developing exclusively on my notebook, and I tend to
carry my whole installation with me when I'm switching notebooks.
So once something's installed, it never vanishes. (And I'm also
rsyncing the whole filesystem with an external drive regularly
since my old harddisk crashed last year...)
(And even when I'm installing other machines, I'm using the world
file of my notebook as a reference, and so YAML gets installed
during the installation process.)
But you're absolutely right! :-)
> > > * the generated_by header did simple contain " Makefile.PL"
> >
> > Heh... ;-)
> >
> > That's because C::B::C sets $MODULE = 'Convert::Binary::C'
> > right on top of the Makefile.PL.
>
> Oh well. Did miss this, but then:
>
> > > * a few entries (most importantly requires) were missing
> >
> > Well, yes. The main reason for the missing requires is that
> > C::B::C doesn't require anything. It builds with a plain
> > 5.005_03 installation.
>
> Your Makefile.PL scares me :-)
Me too. It looks more like Configure than like an average Makefile.PL.
> Anyway, I thought that you don't require anything, but then, a more generic
> metafile routine has the advantage that you can C&P it to other projects :)
Indeed.
> > > I include a fixed version which I used for Set::String.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > However, since Schwern seems to be working on EU::MM again,
> > I hope can throw this code out as soon as my licence patch
> > makes it into a release...
>
> <aol>me too</aol> Just wanted to let you know about the "buglets" I stumbled
> over :)
Thanks for that again.
Gr��le,
Marcus
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