On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 01:34:04PM -0600, John M. Gamble wrote: > Well ... this raises a question. Whither Module::Build?
How about maintenance mode? Does Module::Build really need to be aggressively developed? Module::Build provides a fantastic improvement over MakeMaker: it allows us to write build actions in pure Perl. And it has matured into a build system with a lot of nice features. M::B wasn't core and had some bugs at first, so I could understand when people got impatient over it back in 2006. But it's been distributed with core Perl for years now and it's pretty darn stable. In a quick glance at Dist::Zilla, I see that it does stuff like incorporate POD::Weaver so that they can write their docs in a new language that extends POD - <http://dzil.org/tutorial/writing-docs.html>. That's cool, and I love to see people pushing the envelope, but it's not a feature I'd want to use. I just want to write my elaborate build scripts in Perl rather than Make. If nobody steps up and wants to maintain M::B within the confines of its current API, does it make sense to declare victory and remove it from dual-life status? Marvin Humphrey
