It seems that Module::Build is in the spotlight again, with much discussion polarised into the protagonists and the antagonists: see this.

However, I was musing on what the situation would be if Module::Build had not been written. An alternative approach could be to write a make script in perl - able to process the output from EU:MM. This would decouple the portability arguments against MakeMaker from the rest, and enable MM potentially to work with more platforms and reduce the supported platform specific baggage and cruft that is in MM.

Also, having a perl 'make' that works across platforms with the same type of makefile, could be a useful tool for solving problems building and installing other cross-platform software than perl.

Is this just a pipe dream or has someone attempted and abandoned it for some good reasons?

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