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On Fri Jan 25 20:37:38 2002, penguipotamous@yahoo.com wrote: > Greetings, > > I am using Perl 5.7.2 development version downloaded a week ago. > > This is more a functionality increase than a bug, patch file attached, > particularly: > > added a PERLH2XS environment variable to point to either a file or > directory > to contain a preferences file for the AUTHOR, EMAIL, COPYRIGHT, and > LICENSE > information, limited to this list of keywords. Default filenames for > the > preferences file are .h2xsrc (unixes for example) or h2xs.ini for > dos/windows/vms. directories are checked in order of PERLH2XS, HOME, > or > LOGDIR environment variable directories -- swiped this part pretty > well > straight out of perl5db.pl (Randal's suggestion). Updated the POD > documentation also. Additionally changed the ||= operator for $author > to the > ternary operator, so now it does find my name out by looking it up on > the > system if there is no dot file. > > I do not have access to very many types of operating systems, but it > appears > to work correctly on my linux laptop. I did not do anything > especially > scary, so it should generally work okay. > > Thanks, > > David Martin > penguipotamous@yahoo.com This patch was submitted ten years ago but doesn't seem to have attracted much support. Moreover, in this period we have seen the creation of two command-line utilities, modulemaker and module-starter (associated with ExtUtils::ModuleMaker and Module::Starter, respectively) which accomplish much of what David Martin was aiming at. I think we should reject the patch -- but since I'm the maintainer of ExtUtils::ModuleMaker on CPAN, I'm not unbiased about this. What do other people say? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=8345Thread Previous | Thread Next