* David Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-02 19:55]: > Instead of the annoyance of authors writing "warn $foo and exit > 0", now they'll need to use configure_requires in META.yml to > demand an up-to-date version of Module::Build.
Sigh. Conceded. I keep forgetting that when talking about the toolchain, new features default to being worse than useless, and keep having to resign myself to reality. > If you really want this to be abstracted safely, you'll need to > do it like Devel::CheckLib. Write Devel::HaltPL that exports > "halt" and a script to help authors bundle that in the inc/ > directory. And I'm not convinced that less annoying or clunky > than "warn and exit". I agree that that would be neither. Part of the appeal was folding a list of the arcana into the POD that module authors read anyway. Giving people yet another unrelated module to know about (which they’ll only hear of if they follow an arbitrarily chosen 3 out of 15 mailing lists) is not an improvement of the situation. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
