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From:
Michael G Schwern
Date:
March 30, 2003 19:51
Subject:
Re: rfc: a generic solution for dual-life CPAN packages
Message ID:
20030331035056.GA21133@windhund.schwern.org
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 01:44:41PM +1000, Stas Bekman wrote:
> I need to release Apache::Test on CPAN and I can't do that, because of the 
> bundling problem. I don't know how many man-months very spent on writing 
> the current mod_perl 2.0's build, and while it'd be cool to move to 
> Module::Build it'll take a *lot* of time.

Things which take months of pain in MakeMaker often take a few hours with
Module::Build.  We just ported M::B to VMS last night.  One bug fix, two
trivial method overrides.  You don't want to know the sort of backflips that
are necessary to keep MM working on VMS.

Try it.


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