On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 05:17:50PM -0800, Karen Etheridge wrote: > > Why does one need a Makefile.PL to evaluate the distribution? One should be > able to run it just fine with 'prove -lr t', 'perl -Ilib t/foo.t' etc.
Hi Karen, thanks for your input. I spotted minor failures in the tests with that prove. > > However, that README doesn't sound right -- that sounds tailored towards > developers (which really belongs in something like CONTRIBUTING), whereas a > README should be targeted towards *users* -- containing instructions that > users need to install and run the distribution. (This is the type of > content what the core [Readme] plugin generates.) Good point, I moved those contents to a INSTALL.md file, and now I create the README from the POD.
