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From:
Paul Marquess
Date:
October 4, 2009 03:59
Subject:
RE: IO-Compress Makefile.PL problem [was: Re: Special-casing IO-Compress as "XS", and Win32]
Message ID:
017c01ca44e1$c1b3d900$451b8b00$@Marquess@ntlworld.com
> From: Steve Hay [mailto:steve.m.hay@googlemail.com]
...
> 
> I think what you're suggesting wouldn't work precisely because of the
> core changes:
> 
> http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/4cc80fc (for *nix)
> http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/f4a6a71 (for Win32)
> 
> Those change ensure that the new non-XS versions of these modules
> available in 5.10.1 get installed into the architecture-dependent lib
> folder just like the old XS versions! 

But why does it need to be installed in an architecture-dependent folder at
all? IO-Compress doesn't (or shouldn't) contain anything
architecture-dependent -- all the that logic lives in the Compress-Raw-*
modules.

Paul


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