Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 20:30:29 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> Cc: perl@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Perl vendor directory Message-ID: <3827D28F-3562-4D9D-9BDD-7C3841622458@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <436F5A55071BDCBDA00F0F3B@ogg.in.absolight.net> References: <2490D243-A6AF-453A-A7AA-E7246CD57639@gsoft.com.au> <436F5A55071BDCBDA00F0F3B@ogg.in.absolight.net>
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> On 4 Apr 2016, at 19:25, Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > The vendor prefix is only enabled when you build Perl with > PERL_VENDOR_PREFIX defined. Ahh OK.. > The vendor prefix is supposed to be used by vendors to put their stuff > there, so that it does not conflict with the Perl distribution or the > regular Perl modules. >=20 > ZM should be a good boy and install its stuff in site, like eveyrbody = else. > (It could also like some bad boys install its stuff wherever it wants = too, > like in a hierarchy it handles itself, but it's not really a good = idea.) I guess they have a differing opinion :) I have no idea what the "right" way is - I haven't touched perl in a = long time :) I only brought it up because the ZM devs seem to think the vendor path = is the right place (perhaps it is on Linux..?) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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