Regarding the debate: Randal had a point which may no longer be as valid due to newer ways of building modules (a couple of years ago it would have been a perfectly reasonable email -- now it's debatable), but the response was completely inappropriate. There are certainly people that I do not like online, but if they contact me, I will respond politely. Even if I do lose my temper, I won't respond with such a petty reply. That just shows the maturity level of the author.

Further, please note that he explicitly wrote "politely" and he emphasized it. There was an attempt to rally the troops, but there was no attempt to get them to "bash" the module author. Admittedly, I know Randal and consider him to be a friendly acquaintance so I could be biased, but while I have seen him post things that I feel are offensive, this is not one of them.

Cheers,
Ovid

New address of my CGI Course.

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

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