Now posted: http://blogs.perl.org/users/aristotle/2013/06/toolchain-decade.html
IRC conversation about the original draft:
[03:22:37] <aristotle> I just wrote https://gist.github.com/ap/5695633 and I’d be grateful for any corrections and critique before I post it
[03:22:39] <+dipsy> [ gist:5695633 ]
[03:23:20] <aristotle> (a brief summary of the last decade in CPAN installers and authoring tools)
[03:28:09] <aristotle> in particular I don’t want to post nonsense if my outside-looking-in perspective on M::B’s architecture is grossly wrong
[04:45:06] <jberger> aristotle, seems about right
[04:45:51] I can say, I have used the extensibility to build Alien::Base but its certainly the exception rather than the rule in the M::B world