Of course, the Vanilla Perl approach is to bundle both dmake and Module::Build as part of the installation.

:-)

Sure, you could also do an alien download of nmake automatically.

---
$world=~s/war/peace/g

Now that Andreas is actively working on CPAN.pm and taking patches, it's tempting to add that to CPAN.pm.

my $make = $Config{make} . $Config{_exe};
my @path = split $Config{path_sep}, $ENV{PATH};
unless ( grep { -x File::Spec->catfile( $_, $make ) } @path ) {
    # alien download and install
}
[download]

-xdg

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