On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:46 -0800, "Marvin Humphrey" <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote: > Greets, > > I've offered passthrough Makefile.PLs on my Module::Build-based distros > for > the last few years, and they seem to have done what I needed them to do: > stop > Makefile.PL loyalists from taking up my time with complaints. > > However, I recently saw this on cpan-testers-discuss from David Golden: > > http://markmail.org/message/jzzobzsrgc6vi7tr > > Module::Build::Compat must die. > > I've got a distro that requires Perl 5.8.3 or greater that's currently > got a > passthrough Makefile.PL. Should I zap it? Would that help anyone out, > at the > cost of possibly bringing up the noise floor by some unknown amount on my > support lists?
One idea that I had to use instead of 'passthrough', now that we have an ability to bundle Module::Build, is to make an additional option to Module::Build::Compat that is an extension of 'small' that uses a bundled Module::Build. I've put up an initial patch (I don't have commit on svn.perl.org - should I?) to implement this at https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=53960 . I figure I'll mention it here so that more eyes are looking at the idea. --Curtis Jewell -- Curtis Jewell swords...@csjewell.fastmail.us %DCL-E-MEM-BAD, bad memory -VMS-F-PDGERS, pudding between the ears [I use PC-Alpine, which deliberately does not display colors and pictures in HTML mail]
