That's a pretty poor solution if you weren't already installing via CPAN.pm.

Fair point. However when I'm not installing from CPAN I don't find adding one more module to the usually long-list of prerequisites much hassle either.

Then I hit Devel::StackTrace, which uses Module::Build. I had to basically write a whole new install procedure for it, since it needed entirely different commands with different options.

But those different commands give the end user more options/improved functionality. I prefer install_base to the scary magic that lives behind EU::MM's PREFIX.

I can understand the annoyance that the commands are different, but I think different commands are necessary to support improved functionality.

I would be more understanding about it if it were being used for things that ExtUtils::MakeMaker can't do. When that isn't the case, it just seems gratuitous.

It is doing things EU::MM can't do. For example:

Now I can understand that these are not important issues for your particular application, but they (and others) are for me.

I'm not trying to force everybody to move to M::B. There are things it doesn't handle well yet (XS support is still shaky, nested builds, etc.) That said M::B does more of the things that I want more easily than EU::MM. YMMV.

In reply to Re^5: Module::Starter, a helper for new module authors by adrianh
in thread Module::Starter, a helper for new module authors by petdance

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