I believe you missed the point of Paul's joke. He was quoting advice
from ExtUtils::MakeMaker that many of us consider antiquated:
http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.html#DESCRIPTION
Chris
On Jun 12, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Jonathan Yu wrote:
I have *never* used h2xs to start a module, though I have copied the
basic scripts/structure/etc that other packages have (which likely
began with h2xs at one point or another)...
I prefer doing it on my own by hand, though I guess that's not an
option for people new to Perl packaging
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Paul Johnson<p...@pjcj.net> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 04:12:32PM -0700, Bill Ward wrote:
If you really want people to adopt Module::Build, change the h2xs
script so
it generates something like the above... (kidding - does anyone
still use
h2xs to start a non-xs module?)
Always begin with h2xs.
Always begin with h2xs!
ALWAYS BEGIN WITH H2XS!
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Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net
http://www.pjcj.net
