If there is a major point to be taken from my post, it's how difficult it is to maintain or extend MM. Seven thousand lines of code to add two features? That's ridiculous.

And your comment that "consumers" features have been ignored is not true. The bulk (not all, but the bulk) of day-to-day consumer needs is currently handled by Module::Build and it's currently handled on most platforms. And to see if the author is responsive, check the changes file, see how frequently new versions come out and how many features are incorporated. PREFIX hasn't been added because it's hard. (I'm sure patches are welcome). MB is not done and no one has claimed that it is. Nor have all of the design decisions been the best, but what it offers is a hell of a lot easier to maintain and extend than MakeMaker. Why the authors are making the decisions they are currently making, I can't say and I don't know, but I doubt it will take 7,000 lines of code to add the feature du jour.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to Re^2: Why Module::Build? by Ovid
in thread Why Module::Build? by Ovid

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