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From:
Alexey Tourbin
Date:
July 6, 2007 10:15
Subject:
Re: Beyond 5.10
Message ID:
20070706171452.GE5779@solemn.turbinal
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 10:03:24AM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > What about module upgrades?  E.g. didn't you notice recenet MakeMaker
> > changes with which, with INSTALLDIRS=vendor, you have to specify
> > INSTALLVENDORSCRIPT=/path/to/bindir, not simply INSTALLSCRIPT?
> 
> Why no, I didn't notice.  Has the author been informed?  It might not have
> been intentional.

It's been documented:

6.30_02  Fri Sep  1 15:03:55 EDT 2006
...
    * Split INSTALLSCRIPT into INSTALLSCRIPT, INSTALLSITESCRIPT and
      INSTALLVENDORSCRIPT so it now honors INSTALLDIRS. [bleadperl@26536]

Hoever, it broke
	perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor INSTALLSCRIPT=/where/i/want/scripts

It no longer places scripts where I wanted.
It is a documented incompatible change.

My point was that, if you want to upgrade modules in bugfix-only perl
branch, it gets not bugfix-only anymore, because modules change.
There simply seems to be no such thing as a "stable branch".


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