[Module-build-general] Re: Proposal for Module::Build installation dirs

[Andy D. <dou...@la...>]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Ken Williams wrote:

>
> On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 08:24  AM, Abigail wrote:
>
> >>                               'installdirs' set to:
> >>                        core          site                vendor
> >>
> >>    bin    =>      installbin      installsitebin      installvendorbin
> >>    script =>      installscript   installscript       installscript

> > Is the row for 'script' a typo, or are indeed all scripts, whether
> > they are core, site and vendor always placed in the same directory?
>
> Unfortunately it wasn't a typo.  That's the way MakeMaker does it too,
> because there's no such thing as 'installsitescript' or
> 'installvendorscript' in Config.pm.

Well, there were supposed to be, and they are even documented in 5.6.1's
INSTALL file, but due to a variety of oversights, the actual code to set
them didn't make it into either 5.6.1 or 5.8.0, though it is now in
5.8.1-to-be.

> (Note that the 'script' line is different from MakeMaker -
> unfortunately there's no such thing as "installsitescript" or
> "installvendorscript" entry in C<Config.pm>, so we use the
> "installsitebin" and "installvendorbin" entries to at least get the
> general location right.  In the future, if C<Config.pm> adds some more
> appropriate entries, we'll start using those.)

That sounds like a good plan.  Those entries should appear in 5.8.1's
Config.pm, when that is released.

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    Andy Dougherty		dou...@la...