On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 09:17, david goehrig wrote:
> could someone please explain the rationale behind
> using this experimental build system from cpan?
ExtUtils::MakeMaker sucks:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/02/12/module1.html?page=1
Instead of spending a week working around bugs and misfeatures in
MakeMaker, trying to build individual components on their own (so you
can skip loading SDL::Console, for example, if you only want the basic
video stuff), I spent an afternoon converting everything over to
Module::Build, and unifying the various configurations and makefiles.
Its only necessary prerequisites are:
File::Compare (ships with 5.8.x)
ExtUtils::Install (in the latest MakeMaker distributions)
IO::File (also in 5.8.x)
FC 1 really should have all of these installled.
You don't have to install the recommended modules. Module::Signature is
particularly prerequisite-happy, but you don't need it.
> I'm going to push the 2.0 stuff to cpan
> this week, with or without it. We can
> deal with the fallout from there.
What will you use as the version number? Will it be a developer release
or a full release? Is it backwards compatible?
-- c
