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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Class::DBI::Plugin::Pager installation failor
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:47:31 +0100
From: Max Maischein <corion-cdbi@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: William Ross <will@xxxxxxx.xxx>
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William Ross mentioned Module::Build, which is a pet peeve of mine:

> Its author has used Module::Build instead instead of  
> ExtUtils::MakeMaker, though perhaps not perfectly. You can find more  
> about that particular crusade here:
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/~kwilliams/Module-Build-0.2606/lib/Module/ 
> Build.pm#MOTIVATIONS
Please, if anyone actually considers using Module::Build, please,
please, ALWAYS include either a passthrough Makefile.PL or a full
Makefile.PL .

Without a Makefile.PL, modules cannot be installed through CPAN.pm. See
also http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=292164 , which details
starting at http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=292192 how one should
use Module::Build::Compat to generate a backwards compatbile Makefile.PL.

I'm told that nowadays, this is even the sensible default of Module::Build.

Have fun,
-max