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

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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Re^3: A little truth (a lotta...)
by tye (Sage) on Sep 20, 2003 at 02:00 UTC

    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
Re: Re: Re: A little truth
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Sep 20, 2003 at 15:26 UTC

    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

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