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• M::B Still Scares Me (Score:1)

  by jk2addict (4946)

  I'm glad someone is coming out and saying it. I still don't [willingly] use M::B to this day because all of the bug/feature/change traffic on it makes me nervous. I know M::B is better than EU::MM. I know I should use it. But everytime I read about issues like this, I always head back to EU::MM because it just works for my needs, and I already have a level of predictibility with it. Add on top of that the fact that Catalyst switched from M::B to Module::Install and all of the app upgrade issues that came
  • Re:M::B Still Scares Me (Score:1)

    by chromatic (983) on 2006.01.20 14:02 (#45760) Homepage Journal

    I still don't [willingly] use M::B to this day because all of the bug/feature/change traffic on it makes me nervous.

    You should look at the code for MakeMaker sometime. I stopped using it after I had to understand it enough to write tests for the thing.

    I'm sorry if you (the general, non-specific pronoun) don't like my installer, but if you're going to punish me in test reports for using it, I think you (again, non-specific) ought to offer to maintain a comparable installer for me. It has to be at least as fast and simple as if I were to maintain it myself with my preferred system.

    (Want more fun? Just try explaining how to write Module::Build::TestReporter [cpan.org] with MakeMaker. "Okay, first create a new parent class called MY from which MakeMaker can inherit....")

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    • Re:M::B Still Scares Me (Score:1)

      by jk2addict (4946)

      Right. I know MM is bad. I've gotten the riot act from Schwern (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/3914?show_headers=1 [perl.org]) before for saying what I'm saying. But for me, it still holds true. As a developer, there is less risk in me staying with EU::MM, than there is in moving my stuff to M::B and having to [potentially] deal with versiou install issues, tester issues, Apache::Test::MB issues, etc.