would it be fair to the perl community at large that I had released a module in such a way that novice users wouldn't be able to install it using the standard installation tools?

Now you sound if you have some obligation to some "community". Instead of worrying about things that are on CPAN, worry about all those modules you haven't written yet. You think it would be fair to the Perl community at large that you had not released a module at all?

CPAN has just one requirement: uploaded code should be freely distributable. That's all. No requirement that it should support CPAN.pm, CPANPLUS.pm, MakeMaker or Module::Build. It's following the Perl spirit, it's only asking you to be nice. But you don't have to.

Abigail

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

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