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Change 33748: Note about moving modules to ext/

From:
Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Date:
April 26, 2008 09:15
Subject:
Change 33748: Note about moving modules to ext/
Change 33748 by rgs@scipion on 2008/04/26 16:02:26

	Note about moving modules to ext/

Affected files ...

... //depot/perl/pod/perltodo.pod#226 edit

Differences ...

==== //depot/perl/pod/perltodo.pod#226 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perltodo.pod
--- perl/pod/perltodo.pod#225~33734~	2008-04-23 10:23:34.000000000 -0700
+++ perl/pod/perltodo.pod	2008-04-26 09:02:26.000000000 -0700
@@ -157,6 +157,15 @@
 To make a minimal perl distribution, it's useful to look at
 F<t/lib/commonsense.t>.
 
+=head2 Bundle dual life modules in ext/
+
+For maintenance (and branch merging) reasons, it would be useful to move
+some architecture-independent dual-life modules from lib/ to ext/, if this
+has no negative impact on the build of perl itself.
+
+However, we need to make sure that they are still installed in
+architecture-independent directories by C<make install>.
+
 =head2 Improving C<threads::shared>
 
 Investigate whether C<threads::shared> could share aggregates properly with
End of Patch.



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