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    What follows is the original Alien manifesto written by Artur Bergman.
    It is included here, because much of it is still largely true today,
    but it was out of necessity quite aspirational at the time it was
    written.

 Why

    James and I ended up doing a build system for Fotango, lots of people
    have done a build system, it is a pretty boring task. The boring task
    is really all the mindlessly stupid things you need to do to build C
    libraries that Perl modules require, these C modules usually have
    unusual installation systems or require vastly different options. So
    CPAN modules install easy, 3rd party stuff is nasty.

    So, suddenly an idea struck me, Alien packages! Imagine a CPAN module
    that has as its only task to make sure a certain library is installed!
    That means that you can write all the voodoo in your Build.PL file and
    then just make sure the module requires the correct Alien module! Then
    anything that install Perl modules will deal with it automatically!

lib/Alien.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

=head1 ORIGINAL MANIFESTO

What follows is the original Alien manifesto written by Artur Bergman.
It is included here, because much of it is still largely true today,
but it was out of necessity quite aspirational at the time it was written.

=head2 Why

James and I ended up doing a build system for Fotango, lots of people
have done a build system, it is a pretty boring task. The boring task
is really all the mindlessly stupid things you need to do to build C
libraries that Perl modules require, these C modules usually have
unusual installation systems or require vastly different options. So
CPAN modules install easy, 3rd party stuff is nasty.

So, suddenly an idea struck me, Alien packages! Imagine a CPAN module
that has as its only task to make sure a certain library is
installed! That means that you can write all the voodoo in your
Build.PL file and then just make sure the module requires the correct
Alien module! Then anything that install Perl modules will deal with
it automatically!