How do you come to your conclusion that we are seeing an abridged form of the correspondence?

"Your code is not installable from CPAN.pm, which is still the primary means of CPAN installation for the majority of Perl users." doesn't sound like a complete email to me. If that's all it consisted of I don't think merlyn should have been surprised by the response. Either way such incomplete quoting always sets off alarms when I read it.

It was uncalled for, based on the information to hand.

The information we have on hand is one person's account of one part of a (apparently) very brief email conversation on an extremely trivial matter. I wouldn't look too far into it.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Acme::Lingua::Pirate::Perl author needs encouragement to add Makefile.PL by Anonymous Monk
in thread Acme::Lingua::Pirate::Perl author needs encouragement to add Makefile.PL by merlyn

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