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
My opinion : the functionality that's interesting to add in the core is to be able to run Build.PL, not to produce distros. 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. > install all of the core modules that are built with it on all of the > main OS'es that use it. Actually id go even further and say that no > core distro should use MB until that distro can be installed on all > the main OS'es. I agree for XS core modules; pure-perl core modules just don't use any makefile during perl's compilation process, so it's less important. But it might be important that people can upgrade core modules without installing non-core modules. (That won't be always the case, since sometimes new dependencies appear.)
