On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 07:22:04AM -0700, David Wheeler wrote: > On Friday, September 13, 2002, at 06:25 AM, Johan Vromans wrote: > > >Tchk. I think it's quite nice and powerful to be able to download an > >arbitrary module's .tar.gz and get it going with the simple "perl > >Makefile.PL; make all test; sudo make install". > > It seems to me that very few modules work this way any more -- most of > them have dependencies.
And ExtUtils::AutoInstall is meant to help module authors address that issue. I'm with Johan here: don't make the non-CPAN users suffer unduly. - Barrie
