# from Andreas J. Koenig
# on Wednesday 03 September 2008 13:11:
>And when you ask the CPAN shell to install
>ANDK/keepcool-0.344 you'll probably be surprised that this *script*
>installs just fine.
>
> % head /home/ftp/pub/PAUSE/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/keepcool-0.344
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> =head1 NAME
>
> keepcool - throttle a process with STOP und CONT calls
>
>And if you read $CPAN/scripts/index.html you might imagine that the
>mechanism had its merits. I'm not opposed to giving it up, just
>providing the historical context.
That is different than a tarball though. Does the script installation
have to be given up in order to eliminate the ambiguous behavior in the
case of a dist tarball?
On another note about scripts: sleepserver still never made it into the
index despite my reading of mldistwatch and working to try to get the
META.yml 'provides' field right. Is there something that says I have
to have a .pm file to get indexed?
That is, this distribution is:
bin/sleepserver
META.yml
Build.PL
t/00-load.t
Which means that it can have dependencies and tests.
>> Incidentally, I would love to be able to move forward to the time
>> when there is neither Build.PL nor Makefile.PL.
> Hear, hear! :-)
Is 'dynamic_config: 0' supported? The Build.PL in the above distro is
not really needed.
--Eric
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