Re: [MacPerl] macCPAN

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 06:57:20 -0400 (AST), Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>
>In terms of handling the Makefile.mk, well, Matthias did the work to
>convert dmake to an MPW tool. I suspect that we may also be looking at
>doing some coding to convert dmake to a scriptable app. Then, maybe
>Mac::Glue... ?

That would be pointless, IMHO. The basic purpose of make is to build
software using a compiler. (Of course it can do mora but that's because it
knows how to hand off to a shell.) Without a compiler, why fool with
make?

For a non-XS module what we need is I) get the archive from CPAN, 2)
unpack the archive, making sure of end-of-line, 3) build blib, 4) copy
into place, site_ perl by default but user overridable. All that can be
done by MacPerl itself. In addition, we'd like a tool that can search CPAN
like CPAN. pm can, understands enough about Makefile.PL to do things like
check Perl version and check module requirements, and run the tests, if
any. But the get/unpack/put in proper place capability is fundamental, and
the pieces already exist to do that entirely in Perl.

>
>Arved

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Paul J. Schinder
schinder@pobox.com


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