Module::Build "dist" hooks

bsb has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I want to expand tabs to spaces for distribution but keep the tabs on my local copy.

MakeMaker had the "dist" option which could do the following:

  dist      => { 
    # expand my tabs to 4
    PREOP => "(cd \$(DISTVNAME); \\
          perl -MExtUtils::Manifest=maniread \\
            -pi -e 'BEGIN{\@ARGV=keys \%{maniread()}; } \\
                s/\\t/    /g' \\
          )" },
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Is there an equivalent hook in Module::Build?
When subclassing, how do you call the parent's method?
(Does it have the ACTION_ prefix?)

Brad

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Re: Module::Build "dist" hooks by adrianh (Chancellor) on May 17, 2004 at 13:24 UTC
Is there an equivalent hook in Module::Build? Yup. You should be able to just override `ACTION_distdir` in your subclass something like (untested): `sub ACTION_distdir { my $self = shift; $self->SUPER::ACTION_distdir; # do default stuff ... do tabs2spaces to files in $self->dist_dir; ... }` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]