in reply to A little truth
in thread Acme::Lingua::Pirate::Perl author needs encouragement to add Makefile.PL

Whatever you think of the messenger, the message is accurate.

Most Perl users who install from CPAN do it using CPAN.pm. And I would bet that most do NOT keep CPAN up to date.

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Re: Re: A little truth
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 20, 2003 at 02:03 UTC
    Tsk tsk. Its like demanding complete utf support in perl 5.005 -- not gonna happen. I particularly couldn't care a single iota for CPAN/CPANPLUS... users. As long as the README tells you how to install a module, that's all that matters.
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Re: Re: A little truth
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 20, 2003 at 00:00 UTC
    Most Perl users who install from CPAN do it using CPAN.pm. And I would bet that most do NOT keep CPAN up to date.
    Is that really true or just a guess on your part? I would've guessed that less than half of the Perl community that actually gets modules from CPAN would use CPAN.pm. Can we have a show of hands of how many perlmonks use CPAN.pm versus fetching and installing themselves?
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      How about instead we have an end to this thread? Please?

      Mistakes of courtesy were made on both sides. No blood drawn. Move along; nothing to see here. (:

                      - tye
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      It turns out there was such a poll. And the results are suggestive that CPAN is the most common way To install a module.... I think your reluctance to comply with this is unfortunate, as it is that Module::Build does not either.

      Nevertheless you are of course entitled to upload whatever you like to CPAN, but I dont see the point if it wont install using CPAN.pm


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      demerphq

      <Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...
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