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On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 4:44 PM, James E Keenan <jkeen@verizon.net> wrote: > 1. I notice that on CPAN Module::Runtime is fundamentally built from > Module::Build. Its Makefile.PL is "auto-generated by Module::Build::Compat > version 0.4204." But we no longer carry Module::Build in core. That means > we would need a "pure" Makefile.PL, i.e., one generated by > ExtUtils::MakeMaker -- correct? It's exactly *one* .pm file of a couple dozen lines of code plus comments plus tests and metadata. Worst case is copy that one file to lib/ and find somewhere to put the tests. But most likely the "just_pm_to_blib" feature of make_ext.pl would be completely adequate and it could remain upstream CPAN and live under it's own cpan/ directory in the core distribution. In other words, it's CPAN build dependencies are a red herring and I believe discussion here should focus what it's for and what problem having it in core would solve. I assume it's got something to do with being able to banish the current working directory from @INC, but that's a bit of a WAG.Thread Previous | Thread Next