Re: [MacPerl] macftp.pl routines and Net::FTP installation

[Andreas Koenig <k@anna.mind.de>]

>>>>> schinder@pjstoaster.pg.md.us (Paul Schinder) writes:

  > MakeMaker is pointless unless you have a reasonably good imitation of
  > make, which I'd guess even most MacPerl users don't have (I don't) ,
  > let alone most Mac users.  I *really* wish the module users would
  > realize this, that we all *do* have one program, Perl, and that they
  > should write their standard installer entirely in Perl.

You're right. That's why many perts of the Makefile already run perl
scripts, and why there is already a make replacement written
in perl. It's alpha, but you're welcome to check how it works on the
Mac.

    $CPAN/authors/id/NI-S/Make-0.01.tar.gz

You're out of luck, of course, for modules that need a compiler :-]

andreas