Re: DWIM bundling

# from David Golden
# on Monday 07 September 2009 14:40:

>>  use lib 'inc';
>>  use latest 'Module::Build';
>...
>M::I installs an "inc::Module::Install" into the normal @INC libraries
>that allows bootstrapping the inc/ directory.  It might be worth
>exploring that kind of approach.

I would prefer to avoid its assumption about @INC ordering and contents.

It's tempting though to go with the one-line can't-get-it-wrong 
incantation vs the two-line asking-for-trouble one.  I suppose if the 
installed inc/latest.pm can always sort things out then maybe the only 
place we hit a wall is when there's no '.' in @INC at all.

>    use inc::Module::Build::Bundled;
>
>Where that would be a subclass of M::B that sets up the necessary inc/
>manipulations.

I don't think we want to go down the subclass cul de sac.

The nice thing about the (to be renamed?) latest.pm approach is that it 
isn't specific to Module::Build and keeps these mechanisms from getting 
tangled.  It also allows you to have an inc-latest dist on the CPAN 
with its own set of dependencies (no backwards bootstrapping bendovers 
needed for developer tools.)  The only constraint is in the as-shipped 
inc/latest.pm.

--Eric
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