Module::Build and PPM::Make

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Chris Fields wrote:

> Is there a straightforward way to have generate a PPM
archive using
> PPM::Make if a distribution uses Module::Build?  I know
that Module::Build
> can generate a PPM distribution itself, but it isn't
currently
> PPM4-compatible.
>
> The only way I can think of is to generate a Makefile
first from
> Module::Build, then have PPM::Make use that makefile to
generate the
> PPM4-compatible XML.

Recent versions of PPM-Make should recognize a Build.PL in
a distribution and use that to build things, which should
result in the same type of ppd file that a Makefile.PL would
generate. Is that not working for a particular distribution?

-- 
best regards,
Randy Kobes
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> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Chris Fields wrote:
> 
> > Is there a straightforward way to have generate a
PPM archive using 
> > PPM::Make if a distribution uses Module::Build?  I
know that 
> > Module::Build can generate a PPM distribution
itself, but it isn't 
> > currently PPM4-compatible.
> >
> > The only way I can think of is to generate a
Makefile first from 
> > Module::Build, then have PPM::Make use that
makefile to 
> generate the 
> > PPM4-compatible XML.
> 
> Recent versions of PPM-Make should recognize a Build.PL
in a 
> distribution and use that to build things, which should

> result in the same type of ppd file that a Makefile.PL
would 
> generate. Is that not working for a particular
distribution?
> 
> --
> best regards,
> Randy Kobes

I'm testing it out for a new Bioperl release for WinXP and
PPM4.  I couldn't
find anything in the docs about whether it uses Build.PL.  

I'll give it a go and see what happens.  Thanks!

Christopher Fields
Postdoctoral Researcher - Switzer Lab
Dept. of Biochemistry
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

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