# from David Cantrell
# on Monday 22 October 2007 08:48:
>And if the build process had a create a Makefile.PL for you, then in
> my opinion it's pretty important to let you know about that if it
> causes problems. It shows that the module wasn't properly packaged,
> for some definition of properly.
This is a specific sort of failure, and as far as I'm concerned it is an
improperly configured machine. I'm not going to include a redundant
Makefile.PL just to support people who don't upgrade their tools. It's
no different than not supporting perl 5.005.
--Eric
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[...proprietary software is better than gpl because...] "There is value
in having somebody you can write checks to, and they fix bugs."
--Mike McNamara (president of a commercial software company)
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