How can I specify multiple authors and emails with Module::Starter?

sintadil has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm working on a project with someone else and I'd like to try using Module::Starter to build the package instead of using h2xs. I like the ideas of M::S, and it seems to create a cleaner package than h2xs. I'm running into a minor issue, though: I can't seem to find out how to specify to module-starter (the command-line interface) that the module will have more than one author. There's nothing about this in the documentation. Both Google and RT show nothing of interest. I've tried a couple of solutions, and neither of them DTRT. Here's a couple of examples that don't DWIM (options and flags not relevant to this question eschewed):

module-starter --author=$author1 --author=$author2 --email=$email1 \
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--email=$email2

This, in normal Getopt::Long fashion, takes the last argument specified to each option. To be expected, but I'd like some magic.

module-starter --author="$author1,$author2" --email="$email1,$email2"
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This does get both authors into the relevant files, but they're delimited exactly as one specifies them in the quotes, and the emails are listed after both author names in the relevant .pm files. Suboptimal and unintuitive.

Besides making a patch for this, does anyone have an idea? Thanks in advance.

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Update: Changed a pejorative phrase based on the advice of PodMaster.

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Re: How can I specify multiple authors and emails with Module::Starter?
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Sep 12, 2004 at 15:03 UTC

Besides hacking it into M::S, does anyone have an idea? Thanks in advance.

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