h2xs comes with perl by default, so most people who have perl are already going to have h2xs. So your title isn't quite right (I know, pick, pick, pick).

Anyway, h2xs is useful for building general modules, but it has a lot of stuff that is useful only for XS modules that you'll have to remove for PP modules. A better solution for PP is ExtUtils::ModuleMaker (reviewed here on PM).

I used to use ExtUtils::ModuleMaker for all my modules, but now I find it's too much trouble. The basic code, README, and POD it creates isn't like my current style for writing modules, so I end up deleting a lot of the stuff it created. In the time it takes for me to delete it, I could have made the directory structure myself and written in my own basic code.

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In reply to Re: In praise of h2xs: A tool you gotta have by hardburn
in thread In praise of h2xs: A tool you gotta have by talexb

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