[ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.26

2005-03-22 Thread Michael G Schwern
http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/src/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.26.tar.gz or http://svn.schwern.org/svn/CPAN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/trunk or a CPAN near you. And its about time, too. This is the first version since 6.21 (back in November 2003) that I can say with confidence fixes more than it breaks (isn't

What's next for MakeMaker

2005-03-22 Thread Michael G Schwern
So now that a stable MakeMaker is out, what happens now? Well, there's going to be tweaking particularly for getting it to work in the core, but that's all minor stuff. What's the big picture? The big picture is mothballing MakeMaker and only making such changes as are necessary to fix bugs.