As part of my campaign to eliminate redundancies, I've started on the following:
* Deprecating Module::Build::ModuleInfo in favor of Module::Metadata, which mst extracted into its own dist so it could be used by EU:MM and other toolchain modules. * Deprecating Module::Build::Version in favor of relying directly on version.pm (which now is Makefile.PL only so we don't have a circular dependency) * Deprecating Module::Build::YAML in favor of YAML::Tiny, which is now approved by the pumpking to go into core perl This eliminates the need to continue copy/pasting things into the M::B distribution and avoids bugs due to mismatching versions of modules (which plagued M::B::Version particularly). In all cases, the dependencies are listed in 'configure_requires' and are bundled in inc/ if needed to allow a bootstrap on an older perl without configure_requires support. The M::B::* modules are being kept as empty subclass wrappers for now to ensure compatibility for anything else that was using them. In the coming weeks, I'll be asking people to test bootstrapping/upgrading the dev version, so please keep an eye out. If you have other ideas for eliminating redundancies, let me know. -- David
