On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 02:07:50PM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > On 2/16/06, demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ps: I'll go out on a limb here and say that MB should NOT be made core > > until it makes Makefile.PL production mandatory. And until it can
That doesn't make sense to me. Alerting module authors to missing Makefile.PLs is important only because of how many MB-less installations there are out there; adding MB to the core can only end up decreasing the number of such installations. > My opinion : the functionality that's interesting to add in the core > is to be able to run Build.PL, not to produce distros. Agreed, but there's little point in separating them. > On the other hand, if we begin to ship M::B with stable perls, a lot > of people will keep perl's M::B and not upgrade it. So we'd better be > sure it's pretty stable in terms of functionality and API. So I agree > with you here. Um. Those same people aren't likely to install M::B in the first place. I don't see how providing them with it (even if it will fall out of date) hurts. With respect to stability, I hope functionality continues to increase, and that backwards-incompatible changes will be severely limited. I don't see how this is different from any other module already in the core. However, I hope you are only applying this reasoning to 5.8.x. My main reason for wanting M::B in the core for 5.9.x as soon as possible is to increase the number of people forced to test it and help get it working on non-major platforms.
