Anything better than ExtUtils::MakeMaker ?

[Irving Kimura]

I once read in c.l.p.m. something to the effect that ExtUtils::MakeMaker
was really a short-term stop-gap solution, never intended to become
the workhorse module that it is today. (Cynics may reply that Perl
itself started out as a "short-term stop-gap solution").

I don't know how much truth there is to all of this, but I have to
say that I find ExtUtils::MakeMaker inflexible and all-around
difficult to use. Is there anything better out there?

Thanks!

Irv

 

[Jon Ericson]

I don't know how much truth there is to all of this, but I have to
say that I find ExtUtils::MakeMaker inflexible and all-around
difficult to use. Is there anything better out there?

Module::Build claims to be a replacement for ExtUtils::MakeMaker.

Jon