I've been moving several of my Perl modules from MakeMaker to Module::Build. I'm not seeing support for Module::Build in the Apache::Test suite, so I thought I'd take a stab at subclassing Module::Build to provide support for it.
You are talking about a similar kind of wrappers to ModPerl::MM (for 3rd party modules) and ModPerl::BuildMM (for mp2 itself), right? Looks like ModPerl::MB is the right place then, using the same mnemonics...
I couldn't access the searchable archives for this list (get sent back to http://www.apache.org/), but I did look through this month's archive and didn't see anything obvious along this line.
I don't remember any detailed discussions regarding MB. However a good archive is here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-test-dev
linked from:
http://perl.apache.org/maillist/test-dev.html#Searchable_Archives
Several questions before I jump even more head-long into this.
(1) Is Apache::Build a sensible, everyday name? Should it perhaps reside instead under Module::Build or Apache::Test? I have no problem with this module being its own distribution on CPAN. I also have no problem contributing it to an existing project.
modperl-2.0/lib/ModPerl/MB.pm ?
(2) How DWIMmy should it be? I like the following for my Build.PL (as a goal):
use Apache::Build; my $build = Apache::Build->new ( module_name => 'Apache::Foo', license => 'perl', requires => { 'perl' => '5.6.1', 'Some::Module' => '1.23', 'Other::Module' => '>= 1.2, != 1.5, < 2.0', }, ); $build->create_build_script;
It should just work :) This would also make any t/*.PL files into t/* files.
I haven't used M::B yet, so I have no comments.
(3) Support for multiple versions of Apache/mod_perl.
You mean across 1.0 and 2.0? In that case it shouldn't live in the mp2 distro. Or it should have a dual life on CPAN, which is not quite supported by PAUSE yet.
I'd also like to see if it's possible to add support for building mod_perl 1.x and mod_perl 2.x modules from the same distribution -- basically put Stas's code into this somewhere.
Which code you are referring to?
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