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And the winner is ... (Score:2)
Part of the impetus of Module::Build is to ensure ExtUtils::MakeMaker dies a much needed death. Those who haven't had to do serious hacking on EMM often say that this is a waste of time. Those who have had to do serious hacking on EMM, particularly when they know their hack must support a plethora of systems they don't have access to (really, how many people have a VMS box handy?), absolutely don't want to touch EMM any more. Since much of EMM is trying to build a makefile which many different platforms
Re:And the winner is ... (Score:2)
I'm sure all of that is true, but it's orthogonal to my point, which is that the installer doesn't know if the module author is an enlightened Module::Build user or a dinosaur who only maintains the EUMM system for his module and lets the other route decay. As an installer, I could care less which system is used as long as it just works. :)
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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