It has been common practice within the Perl community for ages to ship distributions with a Makefile
.PL so that the user will be able to install the packages when he retrieves them, either via the shell which the CPAN/CPANPLUS modules offer or via manual CPAN download.The Makefile.PL consists of meta-information, which in the case of the distribution HTML::Tagset is: # This -*-perl-*- program writes the Makefile for installing this distribution. # # See “perldoc perlmodinstall” or
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