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I can't say for sure, but I'm guessing because Ken wants people to think about how they want to do this. The passthrough option seems to work reasonably well, but it is doing pretty funky stuff under the hood. The other methods that use a Makefile.PL also have their drawbacks, so it's really up to each developer to decide how they want to handle this.

As corion said, the problem here is that a module like M::B shouldnt make each developer decide how to handle this. It should simply default to the solution that breaks the least things and provide an opt out for power users. Breaking CPAN by default is just plain wrong, wrong, wrong.

Somebody else has created a Makefile.PL => Build.PL converter tat works for simple Makefile.PL scripts.

So wait, if I choose to convert to using Module::Build not only do I inconvenience all of my users who dont have Module::Build, I also lock out the ones who can't get it to work, and as an added bonus get to spend hours converting non trivial Makefile.Pl's over to Build.Pl framework? Gee sign me up.

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In reply to Re^7: Module::Build and the PPM by demerphq
in thread Module::Build and the PPM by barbie

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