Re: Integrating Module::Build and Dist::Zilla

David Golden wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Christopher J. Madsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 3. Reconstruct the MB object.  Tempting, but as brian d foy found, it's
>> not as simple as just calling Module::Build->resume.
> 
> It should be easy in most cases.  brian was expecting Module::Build to
> remember @INC at the time Build.PL created the M::B subclass object,
> but it doesn't.  "use lib 'inc'; $mb = Module::Build->resume" should
> work.  And if it doesn't, we'll get it fixed so it does.

It doesn't look like resume does all the checks that Build does to
ensure that the _build directory is up-to-date.

>> 4. Run "./Build distmeta" then read META.yml.  I think all the
>> information I need is in META.yml, although it's possible I'll discover
>> otherwise when I actually implement this.  This has the nice side-effect
>> of creating a passthrough Makefile.PL (if configured in Build.PL).
> 
> With a recent dev release of M::B, you can just run the Build.PL file
> and a MYMETA.yml file will be created that contains all that
> information.  It's the new standard for how the toolchain can
> communicate distribution information between processes.  That might be
> sufficient for your needs.

I don't see any advantage to using MYMETA.yml for this.  I'm building
the CPAN release, so I don't want any system-specific information.  And
just running Build.PL wouldn't generate the other files that distmeta
creates.

I think I'm going to try option 4 first, and see how that works out.

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