David Wheeler wrote: > On Dec 27, 2004, at 9:58 PM, Stas Bekman wrote: > >> I think all you need to do is to write an equivalent of WriteMakefile >> (and some other bits). The rest of the stuff in it, is a painful >> exercise of overriding ExtUtils::MakeMaker MY:: methods. > > > You make it sound so appealing. I can't wait! But seriously, if this is > used only for installing mod_perl and not for anything else, does it > need to be done before you're ready to convert to Module::Build for > mod_perl's installer?
it's not just for installing mod_perl. rather, it's a utility class for any module that needs to be released to CPAN. off the top of my head, it does the following automatically: - adjusts the install directory for Apache2/ if required - finds mod_perl and apache header files for XS-based modules - does other automatic foo for Win32 it probably does more that I don't know about as well. at any rate, it's a big win for people writing mp2 stuff for CPAN, and I can see how M::B folks could take advantage of a similar tool. however, stas is right, that tool should be distributed with mp2 core so that developers have access to it. of course, once that's done we could theoretically come up with a mp2 M::B install path, but I think there's enough to worry about at the moment unless someone has a real itch... HTH --Geoff -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
