On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But the FAIL did fail to point out the true source of the > problem. And IMO this hints at a real problem that was mentioned > in this thread, but was not really indicted: namely CPAN.pm's > logic that if there is no Makefile.PL, it is a sane idea to make > one up out of whole cloth. I can't believe anyone would think > this could ever *ever* work, though Andreas does not strike me as > the type to put harebrained heuristical magic in code. So I have > to wonder what the justification for this behaviour might be. Is > it really necessary or even helpful?
There are handful of things on CPAN that are just zipped .pm files. I think the generated Makefile.PL was intended to deal with them. Examples: * BinTree * Counter * Apache::AuthenIMAP However, CPAN.pm only generates a Makefile.PL as a last resort (i.e. no Build.PL and no Makefile.PL). Just to be on the safe side, however, earlier today I committed a patch to the CPAN trunk to bypass CPAN::Reporter entirely if a Makefile.PL has been generated by CPAN.pm. David
