On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Jonathan Yu <jonathan.i...@gmail.com> wrote: > Add to this some complication from Module::Install, which also uses > Makefile.PL. So in that case maybe Makefile.PL is preferred (for > Module::Install to do its thing) rather than Build.PL. (On the other > hand, I don't think I've seen modules that mix both M::I and M::B, so > in the wild this will probably not be a problem)
For a brief time, M::I would also create a Build.PL that ran Makefile.PL that ran M::I. That doesn't happen anymore. (There might be a dist or two that still has it. E.g. Yahoo-Photos-0.0.2). I would say that if Build.PL exists, you should assume that to be the preferred build tool. -- David
