Eric Wilhelm wrote: > Seriously, I share your sentiment. But... > > 1. `perl Build.PL` is not a unix command. > 2. `perl Build.PL` may well be the first time the user has ever > typed `perl $anything` at a console. > 3. It's perfectly reasonable to tell a programmer to go RTFM. > > So, considering that being "unixy" in the context of (2) contributes to > the "I can never manage to install anything that's written in perl" > which I often hear (even from the likes of C++ programmers), I think we > would be better off thinking of it from that point of view.
I see where you're going, but by the same token why would Joe Unix Newbie be redirecting the output of Build.PL in the first place? Yours really is the first report of this sort of thing I've ever heard of.
