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.
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?

      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

      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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