Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >*build* directory already... as far as I understand, our Makefile.PL only
> >needs to be generated in the *dist* directory.
>
> Yeah, that's true.
>
> Let me reconsider my reasoning here from scratch. The original point
> that Adam & Yves were making, IIUIC, was that distributions should
> include a Makefile.PL. If they don't have one at all, then of course
> we don't need to worry about clobbering one! So I'd be fine with
> changing the default in this case to provide some flavor of Makefile.PL
> generated in the dist directory.
>
> The main question would be what style to make it. 'traditional' is
> accessible by more people, but will often be broken (if, e.g., there
> are config questions or auto-sensing in the Build.PL they'll be lost to
> the Makefile.PL), so I'd be inclined to choose 'small' or 'passthrough'
> for this case.
I think "passthrough" is the way to go here. I also still think that
if we default in some way to generating a Makefile.PL, create_makefile_pl
should be extended to have an explicit "skip" option as well.
> That should make most people happy, no?
Sounds good to me. :-)
- Tyler
