Re: [MacPerl] macCPAN

[Arved Sandstrom <Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Paul J. Schinder wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, I'm getting scrambled all in the same post. :-) My stream of thought
regarding a more-automated *XS* build process crept into what is a more
sensible goal at this point - automating the non-XS installation process -
which reaches more of the community anyhow. In any case I'm fully aware of
what make does - I've written a few makefiles in my time.

>From time to time I may forget that we're currently talking about a system
sans development tools. Just slap me down again when that happens.

Arved



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