Re: [Module::Build] mb advice in CPAN READMEs

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

Marvin Humphrey wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2006, at 6:39 AM, David Golden wrote:
>> First, I suggest using 'traditional' instead of 'passthrough' for your 
>> Makefile.PL, unless you're doing something unusual in the Build.PL 
>> that really demands only a Module::Build solution.  You'll make life a 
>> lot easier for those who don't have Module::Build installed and don't 
>> want to (or can't) install it.
> 
> Who's in this group?  I'm now using the 'passthrough' option for one 
> CPAN distro (KinoSearch), and I'm about to add another 
> (Lingua::Stem::Snowball).  Both of them are XS with a bunch of C files.  
> I'd like to know who I'm excluding.

If you can ignore the flamewar part of it, there's a lot of discussion 
here: http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=458282

A lot of the it boils down to not using 'passthrough' unless you 
actually need to use M::B features that EU::MM doesn't/can't support via 
'traditional'.

 From the docs for M::B::Compat on 'traditional':

> You don't want to use this style if during the perl Build.PL stage you ask the user questions, or do some auto-sensing about the user's environment, or if you subclass Module::Build to do some customization, because the vanilla Makefile.PL won't do any of that.

So unless you're doing those things I'd say give 'traditional' a try. 
If it works for you, then it's just that much easier for others.  (And 
one less potential bug report to worry about.)

Regards,
David