Hi all,

Module::Build hasn't shipped a proper release for a good while, and a 
few alphas have gone out since then (including the one in 5.10.0).  Now 
I find myself apparently expected to ship it.

My examination of the .meta files in the cpan says 9095 distributions 
have a META.yml with 'generated_by' citing Module::Build.  To my 
knowledge, the testing of pre-release versions does not extend to 
building or testing these 9k+ distributions, and once it ships, the 
failure reports go to a lot of authors, not M::B maintainers.

So, that worries me.  Does anyone have the ability to setup a set of 
out-of-band tests to avoid spamming everyone else with my failures?  
Tools to generate this list of distributions from a cpan mirror could 
be made, or tell me what would help.  Andreas, I think you said you had 
run a round of tests on the alpha just before this one?  With the 
installer set to MB?


Oh, and the latest change is blocking TAP::Harness changing to 
a "foo ....... ok" output format.


Statistical snacky bit:  the 'generated_by' count on the big three goes:  
extutils::makemaker: 23338, module::build: 9095, module::install: 8289.


Thanks,
Eric
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