On Tue, January 8, 2013 10:43 am, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 10:06:31AM -0600, John M. Gamble wrote:
>
>> I think the finger should be pointed at h2xs, at least as it stands now.
>> A
>> programmer new to CPAN won't know about the META information, and h2xs
>> just isn't oriented that way.
>
> I think the finger should be pointed at perlnewmod.pod, which
> erroneously suggests using h2xs even for non-XS modules. It should just
> tell people to use module-starter.
>
> And even if it doesn't work on Windows because of the getpwuid thing,
> it's still better than using h2xs.
>
Well, I'm hoping this is a temporary problem. I've used module-starter
successfully a couple of years ago. I'm submitting a bug report now.
-john
