See the discussion at Re: Re: Re: Acme::Lingua::Pirate::Perl author needs encouragement to add Makefile.PL.

Following that thread, I sent email to Ken Williams suggesting that the documentation for Module::Build::Compat not say that the preferred scenario is the one where you omit Makefile.PL and just tell people what to do in the README. Instead I thought that people should default to having passthrough present to install Module::Build for them. My point was that the resulting problems will mostly be felt by people who are trying to do something else (eg sysadmins doing a semi-automated install) who were only going to be annoyed at the extra difficulty. He replied saying that he didn't want to do that because he really wanted as many people as possible to learn about Module::Build. As I recall, the response got sent to some Module::Build mailing list, there was brief discussion, and the topic got dropped. I never followed up, and the documentation for Module::Build::Compat still says that the preferred scenario is to not provide compatibility with Makefile.PL, which will break people using CPAN to do installs.

You can make of this what you will. As you might have guessed from my previous post, the episode left me with a bad taste. Furthermore any module that I happen to notice following Ken's advice is broken in my books, and I'll not fail to describe it accordingly if the occasion arises.

Feel free to pass this message on to Ken if you wish. I presume that he is aware of my opinion, and likely doesn't care. At least he didn't care before, and I know of no reason for that to have changed.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Module::Build and the PPM by tilly
in thread Module::Build and the PPM by barbie

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