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• And the winner is ... (Score:2)

  by Ovid (2709)

  Part of the impetus of Module::Build is to ensure ExtUtils::MakeMaker dies a much needed death. Those who haven't had to do serious hacking on EMM often say that this is a waste of time. Those who have had to do serious hacking on EMM, particularly when they know their hack must support a plethora of systems they don't have access to (really, how many people have a VMS box handy?), absolutely don't want to touch EMM any more. Since much of EMM is trying to build a makefile which many different platforms
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by Matts (1087)

    There's a sensible distribution of work though. There aren't many people who need to hack on EU::MM - just a select few. For 99.99% of people it works just fine. In most cases where people try to do stuff out of the ordinary with it they probably shouldn't have tried that in the first place.
    
    I'm still not convinced M::B is worth it (and yes, I've read the rants) for end users - neither module authors nor those installing modules. Seems M::B is worth it for Schwern, and maybe the select few others who wanted
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by chromatic (983)

      I've hacked on EUMM (to add tests) and I've written cross-platform Makefiles. Maybe that puts me in a narrow group of people and makes my opinion suspect. I don't know; I like to think it gives me specific reasons to hate EUMM.

      If my build process has to do anything other than copying a pure-Perl module into blib/lib, I would rather do it in Perl than figure out how to write Perl to write cross-platform, cross-shell Makefiles. It's not that I can't figure out how to make it work, it's that every time I
      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Matts (1087)

        You don't touch the Makefile though. You just do WriteMakefile(%params) and it's all done for you. I don't quite get the argument.
        • Re:And the winner is ... (Score:1)

          by chromatic (983) on 2006.08.24 14:57 (#49572) Homepage Journal

          Let me be very concrete then. When writing the build process for Embed::Parrot, I wanted to use parrot to compile a PIR file into PBC. I want to do this as part of the build process before the test process, so I overrode ACTION_build in Build.PL. I assume, from writing other makefiles, that adding to the test target is the way to go with EUMM.

          How do I do this with EUMM? I've skimmed the manpage backwards and forwards and I don't see an easy way to do it without touching the Makefile.

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