Re: [Module::Build] should Pod::Readme vs. Pod::Text for README creation be a feature?

[Yitzchak Scott-T. <sth...@ef...>]

On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 10:06:19PM -0500, Randy W. Sims wrote:
> Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> >Just as META.yml can be forced to build with or without YAML by setting
> >the YAML_feature, shouldn't README creation depend on a feature?
> >
> >The other discrepancy is that Pod::Readme is recommended but YAML is
> >not; seems to me both or neither should be listed in recommends: in
> >META.yml.  Same with the other feature-enabling modules.  If not,
> >what are the criteria for what goes in recommends: and what doesn't?
> 
> The requirement for creating README can't be properly expressed with 
> current limitations; It depends on (Pod::Readme || Pod::Text). The best 
> we can do is recommend one or both.

Pod::Text has been in the core since 5.002.  But even if it wasn't,
Pod::Readme makes a better README file; Pod::Text is just a fallback.
Hence the recommendation.

I see a parallel with YAML; YAML makes a better META.yml than the
fallback, so it should be recommended.