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On Wed, 08 Feb 2017 03:02:39 -0800, xsawyerx@gmail.com wrote:
> Including Module::Install *does* implicitly encourage it. The only way
> would be to document very very clearly that it should not be used. At
> the same time, this also implies an adoption of this by p5p, even if
> to slowly deprecate it.
>
> This raises another question on my part: Is the intention for this to
> be for good, or for a period? If for a period, how long of a period?
So the very ROUGH numbers I have are that ~3900 out of 35,000 modules on CPAN use Module::Install. That's ~11% of CPAN. I'm not optimistic even Karen could get patched or adopt that many modules. This would probably be with us for some time. I got this by putting all of minicpan into a git repo and I know there are a few dupes. https://github.com/toddr/minicpan_grep
After talking with toolchain, the below idea has been floated. It would allow us to ship ONLY this one file and not M::I with Perl. We could add docs, warnings, etc. to make it clear this is a shim ONLY for working around Module::Install's incompatibility with . not being in @INC.
https://gist.github.com/toddr/a0d877645575df5615cff30fcaf379ad
File: lib/inc/Module/Install.pm
package Fake::inc::Module::Install;
BEGIN {
my $mi = "inc/Module/Install.pm";
push @INC, '.' if $INC[-1] ne '.';
if( -e "./$mi") {
require "./$mi";
}
else {
die("Could not find inc/Module/Install.pm during module installation.");
}
}
1;
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https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130467
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