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Things which people think are the root of the problem but aren't
Its really, really old and crufty
Refactoring has been slowly cleaning up the code
Lots of old, unfixed bugs
Bugs can be fixed
Lousy docs
Docs can be written and improved
Lack of easily accessable module meta-data
Makefile.PL can (and will) generate a meta-data file easily
make is weak, use <insert favorite build tool here>
switching to another build tool will not help, because...
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