Re: M::B vs M::I vs E::M

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Michael G Schwern <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  A simple solution is to add easy module bundling to Module::Build which will
>  honor a higher external version.  MakeMaker already does just this for itself
>  with things like ExtUtils::Install and ExtUtils::Manifest.  This allows the
>  author to bundle their dependencies, but it also future proofs the distribution.

Yup, see inc/latest.pm in the M::B svn tree.  It's a not-yet-ready
first attempt at that.

Keep in mind that the only easy use case for it is for build_requires
stuff.  True runtime requirements ought to still be fetched from CPAN
as per usual.

>
>  The other attraction to Module::Install is the interface.  People seem to like
>  it.  It might make sense to emulate the good stuff in a wrapper over
>  Module::Build, sans the auto-install stuff.

If someone wants to do that it would be fine, I'm probably not going
to do it though.

 -Ken