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Technically, all MakeMaker is doing is a pass through too. Each just makes a shell call to its own implementation of test, install, etc. Since we are talking pure Perl modules here (check thread title) those are the only targets that are relevant. Whether pssthrough is a suitable way to deal with C/C++ builds is another discussion entirely.

I pay attention to the topic at hand (pure perl cpan packages), and yes, passthrough is crap.

It is like the most beautiful woman you ever saw, except when you get close you find out she is really a man.

If you want Makefile.PL and Module::Build, use Module::Install, it is most excellent.

Given that both MM and MB command lines are only making Perl calls to their own libraries, "passthrough is crap" is little more than a bald statement that you believe Module::Build is crap.

No I don't, otherwise I would not have recommended that you forget Makefile.PL and stick with Build.PL. Besides, didn't you know passthrough is DEPRECATED?

I didn't post this question to take sides in the "I hate Module::Build" debate.

With the amount of .. *pause* .. shall we say ... "tangents" , you could have fooled me.

... How big of a community can't download Module::Build but can download CPAN modules... What are the costs ...

Survey time :)

Does it occur to you that my time is valuable and you are asking me to spend it to support your hatred of Module::Build? If so, I need a good reason.

Balls. Sounds like a stiff something or other or other or another is in order.

Looking at the tenor of the responses on this thread and who has participated and who has not, I'm inclined to believe that the answer to my question is something like this: aside from some very vocal (if anonymous) individuals like yourself, most people simply don't care....

*yawn* Straw man, Argumentum ex silentio, Ad hominem, Argumentum ad ignorantiam...

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Re^8: Do Pure Perl CPAN packages really need to use ExtUtils::Command::MM?
by ELISHEVA (Prior) on Feb 18, 2011 at 10:37 UTC

    Besides, didn't you know passthrough is DEPRECATED?

    Sorry to disappoint you, but you don't get to hang me on that nail. I explictly said further back I planned to use 'small' which uses the passthrough technique but is NOT deprecated. The one you are referring to is literally named "passthrough". I never have and never did have any intentions of using it. But if you read through the docs you will realize that it is deprecated because it is no longer needed thanks to CPAN's support for configure_requires, not because it is crap.

    From the module docs (bold mine):

      small

      A small Makefile.PL will be created that passes all functionality through to the Build.PL script in the same directory. The user must already have Module::Build installed in order to use this, or else they'll get a module-not-found error.

      passthrough (DEPRECATED)

      This is just like the small option above, but if Module::Build is not already installed on the user's system, the script will offer to use CPAN.pm to download it and install it before continuing with the build.... This option has been deprecated and may be removed in a future version of Module::Build. Modern CPAN.pm and CPANPLUS will recognize the configure_requires metadata property and install Module::Build before running Build.PL if Module::Build is listed and Module::Build now adds itself to configure_requires by default.

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      not because it is crap

      Another strawman

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