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Monday January 14, 2002
05:37 AM
Perl build systems
Has anyone used perl based build systems, like Module::Build, and if so would they like to comment on the usefulness of this? I'm thinking that a program that can just ship a
I've heard of Cons, and also of Module::Build, which looks interesting (if a little incomplete). So what's your experience with these? Too much of a chicken and egg situation (i.e. you have to install them to install your module)? Or perfectly good for the job?
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Ask Ingy (Score:2)
Build systems are usually so customised as to be impossible to please many people with them as it always seems like the engineer contrived a problem to fit the solution they so cleverly created. You might ask Ingerson about a thing he's working on in a similar vein that seems like it has promise but the social engineering part of it will be the most challenging.
cons (Score:3, Interesting)
Damn shame that Parrot's going to remove the need for their work.
Anyway, cons is the mature product and while I've heard good things about it, I've never used it. Hope the scuttlebutt helps :-)
--Nat
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Cons & Module::Build (Score:1)
I've been helping Ken a bit with Module::Build and playing with it for some projects. Its really easy to use and right now does most of the basic stuff ExtUtils::MakeMaker does, except that its way easier to customize.
I'm go
D'oh moment (Score:2, Interesting)
In a complex module with prerequisites, you can't do away with "make" unless you can convince all the other developers to do away with make too.
So the advantage seems to be as autarch said - easy to alter build processes, not necessarily doing away with make.
(one thing I'd like to be able to do is stick XS files in lib/path/to/module, rather than in the root directory, but that seems impossible with ExtUtils::MakeMaker, unless I'm doing a Homer).