What is the Module::Build equivalent to ExtUils::MakeMaker INST_SCRIPT? - perl

Question

I want to convert a project from use of ExtUtils::MakeMaker to Module::Build.
As the Makefile.PL is mostly default and Module::Build::Convert did not work for me (see below) I want to convert it manually but did not find the equivalent of INST_SCRIPT to place the executables in Perl's bin/ directory.
My WriteMakefile looks like this.
WriteMakefile(
NAME => 'Project',
AUTHOR => q{Mugen Kenichi <mugen.kenichi#uninets.eu>},
VERSION_FROM => 'lib/Project.pm',
INST_SCRIPT => 'script/',
($ExtUtils::MakeMaker::VERSION >= 6.3002
? ('LICENSE'=> 'perl')
: ()),
PL_FILES => {},
PREREQ_PM => {
'JSON' => 0,
'Log::Log4perl' => 0,
'Proc::Daemon' => 0,
'Term::ANSIColor' => 0,
'MooseX::Declare' => 0.34,
'MooseX::Log::Log4perl' => 0,
'Moose::Util::TypeConstraints' => 0,
'MooseX::Templated::Role' => 0,
'Template' => 0,
# for testing
'Test::More' => 0,
'MooseX::Params::Validate' => 0,
'File::Temp' => 0,
'Sub::Exporter::ForMethods' => 0,
'Data::Section' => 0,
},
dist => { COMPRESS => 'gzip -9f', SUFFIX => 'gz', },
clean => { FILES => 'Project-*' },
);
I tried to use Module::Build::Convert but make2build throws errors i could not resolve:
Variable "$regex" will not stay shared at (re_eval 32) line 1.
Use of uninitialized value $lines[0] in pattern match (m//) at /home/mak/perl5/lib/perl5/Module/Build/Convert.pm line 1305, <DATA> line 1.
perl version:
perl -v
This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 3 (v5.12.3) built for x86_64-linux

Answer 1

If that's what your Makefile.PL looks like, leave it like that. Don't switch to Module::Build, which appears to be an abandoneed build system. No one maintains Module::Build anymore, and until Leon Timmermans comes out with the next thing, unless there's some feature in Module::Build you absolutely must have, there's no reason to convert to it.
Having said that though, I create the list of script files and use it as the value for script_files. It's not as nice. See my Build.PL for Unicode::Tussle.