On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Ideally it would be Module::Maker.  Using the ExtUtils:: namespace is
> unfortunate legacy from ExtUtils::MakeMaker.  ExtUtils:: == 
> Modules which deal with External Utilities such as make and Fortran 
> compilers.

It's actually more like 'Extension Utilities', i.e., things to help make
extensions (initially, stuff that was stored in the ext/ subdirectory of
the perl distribution) which was a quite logical choice of names at the
time, but might be irrelevant now.

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    Andy Dougherty              [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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