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From:
Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões
Date:
November 23, 2004 03:53
Subject:
Re: Restarting MakeMaker development
Message ID:
41A3249B.3040600@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt
bronek42@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:09:25 +0100, Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> wrote:
> 
>>Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> writes:
>>
>>>On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 08:35:18AM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
>>>
>>>>>I thought MakeMaker was dead.
>>>>
>>>>Who told you? It is not.
>>>
>>>Me, sort of. :)
>>>Its not dead, just doomed.
>>
>>Wouldn't it then be better to concentrate on pushing Module::Builder
>>instead?
> 
> 
> Not really...  EU::MM is very popular and just simply works for most cases.
> Would be nice to have a new release, containing patches which now rot
> in MM's rt.cpan.org queue.

I would say EU::MM is much better than M::B at the moment.
Just my thoughts..

Alb

-- 
Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho

Much as I hate to say it, the Computer Science view of language design
has gotten too inbred in recent years. The Computer Scientists should
pay more attention to the Linguists, who have a much better handle on
how people prefer to communicate.
             --Larry Wall

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