FastCGi on IIS... The tale of Microsoft and my new Perl Module...

Andy Armstrong n at rciss.us
Fri Oct 19 15:32:52 BST 2007


On 19 Oct 2007, at 15:22, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 02:49:06PM +0100, Andy Armstrong wrote:
>
>> Incidentally if you use Module::Starter::PBP to create your project
>> you'll get skeleton Makefile.PL, Build.PL and tests. There will be
>> tests for POD syntax and coverage and it's easy to see how to add
>> prerequisites to Makefile.PL and Build.PL.
>
> Isn't maintaining both Makefile.PL and Build.PL by hand a Bad  
> Practice?
> They're bound to get out of sync.

It may well be. My point (and I should have made it more clearly) is  
that you'll get useful skeletons for both. If you decide not keep one  
of them you can delete it.

> You should just stick with Makefile.PL and *no* Build.PL, or maintain
> Build.PL and automatically re-generate your Makefile.PL from that when
> you package stuff and upload it to the CPAN.

Sure.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, Hexten





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