I've just opened a ticket in rt.cpan.org to request an update to the Alien module description:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88316 Forwarding my message to module-authors since I just realized that this request needs to go here instead. Thanks, Chris ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Marshall <devel.chm...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:58 AM Subject: Request co-maintainer for Alien To: module-auth...@perl.org Per my previous discussion on this list, I would like to update the Alien module (manifesto) with current best practices and adding the capability of detecting an existing installation as a common-sense default that would lead to Alien::XXX modules that are much more likely to support "difficult" platforms than the current install-only practice. I've made two email attempts to the module author and tried to reach him by phone without luck. If this is not possible, I could always release an updated manifesto in a different namespace---but that seems ugly. Thoughts? Chris
