On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 17:08:46 -0400
Chris Marshall <devel.chm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The only alternative is to do the actual install
> process to see if it "just works" or to drill down
> into the implementation to determine how the
> module does its work and thence to deduce if
> it supports windows (64bit) for example.

Er, I missed the text on the first mail ;)

The approach I take with Alien modules is to bundle the upstream
tarball in the dist, and build/install it directly into perl's archlib
directory:

  https://metacpan.org/release/Alien-libtermkey
  https://metacpan.org/release/Alien-unibilium

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Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

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