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  • I think Licenses is unnecessary - RMS can bite my shiny metal ass. As can your lawyer. As long as you have a LICENSE section in your POD (I violate this in several modules though).

    Telling me that Makefile.PL shouldn't prompt though is just wrong. There's a lot of cases where it should. What about optional modules (via ExtUtils::AutoInstall - the recommended way by CPAN testers)? What about locations of things like the httpd when you need to test mod_perl modules (and no, finding it in the usual paths isn't

    • Sorry, Matt, you're completely wrong. Any questions that your Makefile.PL needs should be supplied on the command line or in environment variables. If it can't autodetect what it needs then it should die and say so.

      Non-Interactivity is an absolute necessity when you're building packages from modules and expecting them to work.

      If you want to do clever stuff, let the advanced user that needs to do it read the damn docs and figure out how to do so. Optimise for the common case by not asking questions.

      • I'm not WRONG. I just have a different opinion to you.

        Writing installers is probably the hardest part of every single software project I've ever worked on. Period. This is not something Open Source developers need to be wasting their time on when they can ask questions and have an easier life.

        Feel free to supply patches.

        • Feel free to supply patches.

          That's the real answer. "Right" and "wrong" are really defined by the module author. If someone else wants it another way, is willing to do the work, and the module author doesn't mind, great!

          But I think you'll find most of us increasingly prefer non-interactive installations.

          --
          J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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