Re: [Module-build-general] [comments please] module installation paths

[Uri G. <ur...@st...>]

>>>>> "KW" == Ken Williams <ke...@ma...> writes:

  KW> On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 02:14  PM, Uri Guttman wrote:

  >>>>>>> "KW" == Ken Williams <ke...@ma...> writes:

  KW> Yup, it's an editorial.  I don't feel bad about editorializing here,
  KW> but I should maybe make it more clear - "in order to promote reuse" or
  KW> something.

better but i would drop the editorial.

  KW> =item bin
  >> 
  KW> "Architecture-dependent" programs, i.e. compiled C code or
  >> something.
  KW> Pretty rare to see this in a perl distribution, but it happens.
  >> 
  KW> This isn't XS code.  It's binary executables, not binary libraries.
  KW> That's pretty rare as far as I've seen.

ahh, hen make it clearer that these are standalone binary exectuables.

  KW> Maybe I should rename this section to "How installation paths are
  KW> determined" or something.

good idea.

  KW> perl Build.PL destdir=/tmp/foo
  KW> or
  KW> Build install destdir=/tmp/foo
  >> 
  >> 
  >> this is the first time you show how these params are set.

  KW> That's because this is just an excerpt from the much larger pod in
  KW> Module/Build.pm .

i would still show a couple of one line examples at the top so the
reader gets a feel of what the rest of the doc means. i didn't know
where i would put those params until i saw those two lines. and a one
line example for each section would be good too.

uri

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