Re^5: Module::Build users -- please use the "traditional" create_makefile

I don't really buy that. We don't have to satisfy every possible installation requirement in PREFIX. We document what it does, and we leave it at that. It sets the root directory. You only get to do that once. Whatever you set is what you get. As for it's actual effect between MakeMaker versions 5.x and 6.x, who's fault is that, eh? :)

If the documented PREFIX doesn't work for you, you don't use PREFIX. However, it works for a lot of people who aren't so picky about such things.

One of the key talents in a software developer is knowing when to stop letting the user have flexibility. That's one way to make code much simpler: just say "You can't use this for everything".

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brian d foy <brian@stonehenge.com>

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Re^6: Module::Build users -- please use the "traditional" create_makefile_pl option by dragonchild (Archbishop) on May 18, 2005 at 18:03 UTC
/me really shouldn't have opened his big mouth. For the record, I happen to agree with every single point you've made. If I felt that Schwern would have listened to me, I would have made those points to him a year ago when I first read about this entire ... "thing". (That was a comment on my lack of clout, not his lack of listening skills.) Personally, I think that MakeMaker should be platform dependent, similar to File::Spec. If Debian is weird, then have a ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Debian. VMS, Win32 ... whatever. One size doesn't fit all. In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is. :-) "What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?"	[reply]

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Re^6: Module::Build users -- please use the "traditional" create_makefile_pl option
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on May 18, 2005 at 18:03 UTC

/me really shouldn't have opened his big mouth.

For the record, I happen to agree with every single point you've made. If I felt that Schwern would have listened to me, I would have made those points to him a year ago when I first read about this entire ... "thing". (That was a comment on my lack of clout, not his lack of listening skills.)

Personally, I think that MakeMaker should be platform dependent, similar to File::Spec. If Debian is weird, then have a ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Debian. VMS, Win32 ... whatever. One size doesn't fit all.

In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is. :-)
"What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?"

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