(Yes, yes, I really should upgrade it to Dist::Zilla, but I don't have time right now. I will soon, honest!)

Well, that will certainly prevent several people from contributing to that module. It provides a huge barrier to even writing a patch for your module. And not being able to write a patch can even discourage just reporting a bug. (Though, some of that last part is mostly repeating what brian d foy said the other day.)

I had a one-line change to a module that I desperately wanted deployed and really, really wanted uploaded to CPAN. But Dist::Zilla is way too much work and that was very effective at preventing me from getting to either of those tasks, that would otherwise be quick work.

- tye        

In reply to Re: Convincing Module::Install to put stuff in inc/ (zilla--) by tye
in thread Convincing Module::Install to put stuff in inc/ by Oberon

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