I did not say or imply it was offensive, but that it was inappropriate. Your post is so carefully worded that I can't even tell if you think it was an appropriate meditation or just defending Randal out of kindness.

If I feel that my email messages to various module authors are not replied to politely or with the answer I think best serves the community should Perlmonks::Meditations become my griping ground as well?

One other note: politely or impolitely refusing aside, the module author is following the number one preferred scenario of installation found in the docs of Module::Build::Compat: just include a Build.PL and no Makefile.PL and require that Module::Build be installed. Can we fault the author of the Acme:: module for using Module::Build and following the recommended usage of that module?

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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