# from David Golden
# on Friday 16 April 2010 10:54:
>On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Eric Wilhelm <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> Or, dirty hacks:
>>
>> my $orig = \&ExtUtils::Manifest::maniskip;
>> local *ExtUtils::Manifest::maniskip = sub {
>
>-1 Dirty hacks lead to maintenance headaches later.
> # But before Eric wrote that, he said:
>>Or replace ExtUtils::Manifest with something that doesn't use the
>>filesystem as its primary API?
Dancing around some old clunky code that just looks like a pile of
monkey patches swinging from a tree of assumptions is a lot more
maintainable than a pile of monkey patches to make it take input via
variables instead of the filesystem?
--Eric
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