Now you sound if you have some obligation to some "community"...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.
So is it OK to put intentional malware on CPAN as long as the license is acceptable?

For anything that is meant to be useful for a community, there is a point when community mores naturally come into play. I think that it is fair to expect that code placed on CPAN should make a good faith attempt to be easily installable on most systems or have documented why it is not.

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

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