Re: [Module-build-general] MakeMaker Is DOOMED!

[Brian I. <in...@tt...>]

On 15/02/03 21:43 -0600, Ken Williams wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 03:30  AM, sc...@po... wrote:
> > Tonite at Portland.pm I gave a lightning talk entitled "MakeMaker Is 
> > DOOMED!
> > or MakeMaker Is Dead!  Long Live Module::Build!".
> 
> Excellent. =)  I should bring a Grim Reaper mask to YAPC/TPC this year.

I went to the talk. It got me to thinking about CPAN::MakeMaker and its
relationship to Module::Build.

Given:

    The goal of CP::MM is to allow authors to write very simple/clean
    Makefile.PLs that can potentially "turn on" very powerful features
    like "bundling" with the flick of a switch. 

    The Makefile.PL produces a Makefile.

Then:

    There is no reason why CP::MM can't produce a Makefile that wraps
    Module::Build!

    If the author has a version of Module::Build on there system that
    is sufficient to handle the options that the author has requested
    of CPAN::MakeMaker, then CP::MM will (optionally??) bundle M::B
    into the author's dist. After that nobody is the wiser. Everything
    just works.

    Except that if the USER is installing on a makeless system, CP::MM
    will prompt them to use Build instead.

Conclusions:

    CP::MM becomes a migration tool for moving over to Module::Build.

    The users always have the correct version of M::B, because it is
    bundled in. (Just like CP::MM itself)

    CP::MM focuses on "refactoring fancy functionality into simple
    switches".

    M::B focuses on replacing MakeMaker.

Yay! Thoughts?

Cheers, Brian