Re: [Module::Build] Pure Perl version objects

[David G. <da...@hy...>]

John Peacock wrote:
> All -
> 
> I finally sat down and duplicated the XS version code in Perl and have
> implemented pure Perl version objects.  In order to fully support all of the

Awesome!

> ActiveState does include various Scalar::Util releases in both the 5.6.x (non-XS
> apparently) and 5.8.x (full XS).  But ActiveState has been lazy, it seems, as
> they haven't updated the PPM build machine to anything newer than Module::Build
> 0.20 (judging from some of the build errors I'm seeing on their web site).

Worse is that they haven't updated Scalar::Util from version 1.05 (or 
0.06) on their PPM build machine, so *everything* that wants, say, 
refaddr (Scalar::Util 1.09) doesn't build.  There was another round of 
complaints about it on perlqa.  I sent emails recently to both 
ppm-request and the person listed on perlqa as the maintainer of it and 
got zero reply.   (Not even a "your ticket has been received" reply.)

That said, I'd say to go for it.  You can probably get Randy Kobes to 
build up a PPM on the uwinnipeg repository.  And with things like 
CamelPack (http://stennie.org/camelpack/) maybe PPM dependence will be a 
thing of the past before long anyway. (Now that you've done the pure 
perl version, of course.)

Regards,
David