On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:57:27 -0700 Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is Module::Build recommended over Module::Install? > Is Module::Install recommended? My main objection to Module::Install is that it lives in the distribution itself, rather than being out-of-tree, living on the target system. This means that for e.g. 100 modules on CPAN, that's 100 distribution files that all contain Module::Install. Moreover, they contain a snapshot of whatever version of M::I was current at the time it was built, or, maybe, whatever version the module's developer had at the time. That seems to me to be the wrong way to solve the problem. Module::Build does have issues, but the only one I've ever been hit by, is that it isn't always installed on target machines; especially not some of the smoketesting machines that report to CPAN Testers. I don't consider this to be a flaw in the tool itself; simply in people's use of it. It's ultimately chicken/egg. Plus, I believe the intention is that Module::Build will be core in perl 5.10 anyway, so that problem should go away. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 4135350 | Registered Linux# 179460 http://www.leonerd.org.uk/
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