On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:34:24AM +0000, David Cantrell wrote: > The practice of bundling third-party modules with yours is IMO very > wrong indeed. If I bundle (eg) Test::Frobnitz, and a hundred other > people bundle Test::Frobnitz, then this leads to two problems: > > 1. when the author of Test::Frobnitz finds a bug in his code those > hundred other distributions are still buggy;
If you make use of Module::Install or some other smart "do I use the bundled version or the installed version" technique this is not a problem. Personally, I only bundle a testing module when it avoids a dependency loop such as Test::Harness or MakeMaker bundling Test::More. > 2. if a user wants to look at Test::Frobnitz on search.cpan.org it's > hard to find amongst the noise of old versions in other distributions search.cpan.org does not look in the t/ nor inc/ directories so this does not apply.
