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On Wed, 08 Feb 2017 18:28:33 GMT, TODDR wrote:
> 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;
Where would this file reside in the Perl 5 core distribution?
--
James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org)
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