README.hacking -- notes for contributors ---------------------------------------- CODING STYLE Not all old code has been cleaned up, but going forward, please follow these conventions: * 2-space indentation with spaces, not tabs DEPENDENCIES DURING DEVELOPMENT (AKA USING MYLIB) It can be annoying to manage dependencies during development when testing metabase distributions as they often depend on other metabase distributions also under development. There are a few options (1) set PERL5LIB to include all metabase project files (2) continually install all metabase project files while developing (3) use "-Mylib" and the .mylib file For (3), install the "ylib" module from CPAN. Then, when you invoke "perl -Mylib", all directories listed in the .mylib file will be added to @INC. For Makefile.PL, you'll need to make sure that -Mylib is used by perl as invoked in the Makefile: $ perl -Mylib Makefile.PL PERL="`which perl` -Mylib"