Just talked with Nick Clark.  ExtUtils::Constant is going to be
distributed seperately from ExtUtils::MakeMaker.  There's no direct
dependency so one can live just fine without the other.

On a similar line of logic, ExtUtils::Embed is also going to be cast
adrift.  I don't know if Doug has any plans to place it on CPAN, but I
don't have the necessary knowledge to maintain that module or backport
it.

So ExtUtils::Constant and ExtUtils::Embed are leaving the CPAN release
of MakeMaker.  The Good News means less for us to maintain, and those
were the most problematic cross-platform-wise.  It also means people
can (in theory) install ExtUtils::Constant and new versions of
ExtUtils::Embed without taking the whole plunge and updating
MakeMaker.

The bad news is with them goes our only XS tests.


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