# from David Cantrell
# on Wednesday 08 April 2009 16:17:
>> Dissenters are certainly free to hold their opinions without reason,
>> but I would rather they not inflict those irrationalities on others
>> as advice.
>
>What you would rather has no bearing on what *is*.
>
>And your belief that those who disagree with you are irrational is
>both offensive and demonstrates that you've not actually bothered to
>read those opinions.
Please don't get offended or think that I've called you irrational. I'm
simply pointing out that opinions stated without reasons are
unreasonable, not calling you unreasonable.
>> Please elaborate on why one should *not* use Module::Build.
>
>That depends on who one is. If you're writing specifically for people
>who keep their toolchain and perl religiously up-to-date,
There's nothing religious about it. You upgrade, it works better.
>then by all means use Module::Build. But if you're not, then using
>Module::Build is silly because it hasn't been in core for very long.
That's not exactly a problem with Module::Build (not that I haven't put
energy into solving it.)
But, anyway, is it a problem we really need to be inflicting on new Perl
users? Do they have to care if "somebody might be running 5.8.8
somewhere"? With 5.10.0 out for well over a year now?
And anyway, if the trouble with using something is that it's "not core",
the fix is not to get it into the core. Rather, we should try to
make "coreness" not matter.
Thanks,
Eric
--
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it."
--Donald Knuth
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