[Module-build-general] Bootstrapping

[Dave R. <au...@ur...>]

I believe it was Mark Fowler who brought this issue up at the M::B BOF at
YAPC.

His basic problem was that he had a subclass of M::B that he wanted to use
in various modules he might distribute on CPAN.  This leads to the
question of how to specify this prerequisite.

I think this needs a new prereq specification for "bootstrap" modules, so
we can do something like this:

  use Module::Build;
  Module::Build->boostrap_requires( 'Module::Build::Foo' => 0.15, ... );

  require Module::Build::Foo;

  Module::Build::Foo->new( ... )->create_build_script;

This wouldn't be too hard to implement but I wanted to discuss the API
before creating a patch.

So what do others think?


-dave

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