would it be fair to the perl community at large that I had released a module in such a way that novice users wouldn't be able to install it using the standard installation tools?
Now you sound if you have some obligation to some "community".
Instead of worrying about things that are on CPAN, worry
about all those modules you haven't written yet. You think
it would be fair to the Perl community at large that you
had not released a module at all?
CPAN has just one requirement: uploaded code should be freely distributable. That's all. No requirement that it
should support CPAN.pm, CPANPLUS.pm, MakeMaker or Module::Build. It's following the Perl spirit, it's only
asking you to be nice. But you don't have to.
Abigail
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