perlquestion gideondsouza <p>So my question is pretty simple.</p> <p>I noticed most modules use ExtUtils::MakeMaker and their Makefile.PL looks like this:</p> <code> use ExtUtils::MakeMaker; WriteMakefile( ATTRIBUTE => VALUE [, ...] ); </code> <p>But some distributions, like Net::GitHub look very different:<a href='https://metacpan.org/source/FAYLAND/Net-GitHub-0.50/Makefile.PL' >Link to the Makefile.pl.</a></p> <p>This seems to use inc::Module::Install.</p> <ul> <li><b>Q:</b> Which method is is preferred?</li> <li>Additionally I noticed Net::GitHub has a repository attribute with a link to the github repo, I didn't know about this attrib, and it seems pretty useful since both search.cpan.org and metacpan.org will show this on the release info. <b>Q:</b> Where can I find a list of attributes needed/used by various cpan clients?</li> </ul>