Steve Purkis [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth:
*>
*>That's horribly out-dated though.  The fact of the matter is that 
*>Makefile.PL's aren't that difficult to write.  It's writing customized 
*>make targets that's the hard bit, and you only need to do that for more 
*>complicated projects (ie: not for pure-perl extensions).

You'd think that but considering how few people manage to write proper
pod, add a $VERSION or even a correct version, a synopsis, or bundle their
distributions up right I encourage people to use whatever tool, outdated
or not, that will help PAUSE, CPAN and the search engines index stuff
properly. Also, if you read the man page for h2xs you'll see that there
are flags to remove the XS bits from the framework. Far too many people
who either think they are too clever to use h2xs or simply don't know the
tools exist are a large part of CPAN pollution. Of course, I won't mention
the Acme:: namespace which seems to be very well represented by the
London.pm :)

*>Can't read it if we don't know about it :)
*>Will check it out...

It's a bit outdated since a few things have come down the pike in 2 years
but much of it still holds.

e.

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