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From:
Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Date:
February 28, 2009 23:57
Subject:
Re: deprecating Switch.pm
Message ID:
b77c1dce0902282357m673de288h2131230a2d8d60f2@mail.gmail.com
2009/2/28 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>:
> I have a partial solution[0] but there is an obstacle. Here's the
> Makefile.PL of the CPAN version of Switch-1.14:
>
>  use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
>  WriteMakefile(
>      NAME => q[Switch],
>      VERSION_FROM => q[Switch.pm],
>      PREREQ_PM => { 'Filter::Util::Call' => 0, 'Text::Balanced' => 0 },
>      INSTALLDIRS => $] >= 5.00703 ? 'perl' : 'site',
>  );
>
> For all modules that set INSTALLDIRS to 'perl' the installation simply
> overwrites the already installed Switch.pm or even refrains from doing
> it when the files are really identical. In such a case installing from
> CPAN with MakeMAker does not resolve the situation.
>
> Are you intending to demand that these distros be changed to always
> specify "site"?

Arguably, with the new layout, 'perl' is no longer necessary. Should
even MakeMaker attempt to install into 'perl' ?

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