# from Andreas J. Koenig
# on Tuesday 11 September 2007 12:11 am:
><klapperl>: so can you explain why the compatibility layer is broken?
><ewilhelm>: jeez, it is the *compatibility layer*
>
>I think it's time that Module::Build considers another compatibility
>layer in addition to the existing one. It would be the one for authors
>who consider the compatibility layer broken for their demands.
IMO, the only problem with the compatibility Makefile.PL is that CPAN.pm
and CPANPLUS.pm both default to using it. Module::Build can't really
do much about that (without modifying your CPAN/CPANPLUS options.)
Further, to actually fix the damage done by that, the option would need
to be deleted or reset. How many users actually pondered that question
enough to choose *against* the default? (which most consider to be
advisory)
It might as well have been:
Ignore author's primary build system? [Yn]
--Eric
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