note chromatic <p>I find dzil to be a huge help when I code, so much that the lack of dzil on some of my older CPAN modules makes me not want to work on them.</p> <p>With that said, I'm very sympathetic to the experience of trying to patch a dzil-using module; it can be a real hassle to reach that point. Would it help if the <em>README</em> or some piece of documentation somewhere (if not <em>README</em>, then what?) said that it's okay to use <c>prove</c> to run the tests, and that any patches can safely ignore dzil if you don't want to use it?</p> 972557 972635