Re: declaring meta info in a .pm (but really: bundling)

# from Nicholas Clark
# on Monday 07 September 2009 11:11:

>I believe (but I may be wrong) that the plan with bundling was to use
> the newer of the bundled and any installed version, to avoid the
> problem that has happened with M::I whereby a bug fix in M::I means
> that module authors need to update and re-release each and every
> distribution bundling the buggy version.

That is/was the plan and all of that code is already done.

You can ship a bundled M::B (and anything else even) *11 months ago* 
without any more code being written.  See contrib/bundle.pl for some 
help.

  https://svn.perl.org/modules/Module-Build/trunk/contrib/bundle.pl

What is missing is:
  1) some interface to 1-step-setup the bundle,
  2) detection/updating the bundled version before release,
  3) testing

--Eric
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