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Leon Timmermans
Date:
May 23, 2013 18:53
Subject:
Re: RFC: Deprecating Module::Build
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On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:56 PM, David Golden <xdg@xdg.me> wrote:
>> Likewise, Perl::OSType and possibly Module::Metadata could be removed.
>> This will likely have less of an impact though.
>
> Leaving aside my personal investment in the former, I think having
> some OS "family" information maintained centrally could still have
> some value.  But I don't feels strongly about keeping it or
> deprecating it.

It's very low-maintenance anyway.

> If EU::MM isn't using Module::Metadata already, I hope that we might
> get it to eventually.  I'd like to have just *one* tool for toolchain
> to use to parse stuff out of .pm files.  I'd suggest not deprecating
> it yet.

Yeah, that would probably be a good thing.

Leon
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