On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 03:05:10PM +0100, Alberto Simões wrote: > Hello, > > I noted this thread too late, and I have no time to read it all. > So, just a pair of comments: > - suggesting new people to use tools other than M::B, sure (not sure > of a better one yet) > - forcing people who are happy and using M::B in their distributions > to change, please no. > > I fought for years with EU::MM to build some XS based libraries, and > M::B just made that possible with low effort. It might be evil (as > EU::MM), but it is making people happy. No-one is forcing anyone not to use Module::Build. And toolchain support for configure_requires means that it should just keep working in the future - CPAN clients will correctly download and install Module::Build from CPAN. So there's no forcing here. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next