Re: Module::Install reporting ARRAY(0x82c3dd8) ...missing

On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:57:27 -0700
Bill Moseley <moseley@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is Module::Build recommended over Module::Install?
> Is Module::Install recommended?

My main objection to Module::Install is that it lives in the distribution
itself, rather than being out-of-tree, living on the target system. This
means that for e.g. 100 modules on CPAN, that's 100 distribution files
that all contain Module::Install. Moreover, they contain a snapshot of
whatever version of M::I was current at the time it was built, or, maybe,
whatever version the module's developer had at the time. That seems to me
to be the wrong way to solve the problem.

Module::Build does have issues, but the only one I've ever been hit by,
is that it isn't always installed on target machines; especially not
some of the smoketesting machines that report to CPAN Testers. I don't
consider this to be a flaw in the tool itself; simply in people's use of
it. It's ultimately chicken/egg. Plus, I believe the intention is that
Module::Build will be core in perl 5.10 anyway, so that problem should go
away.

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