From owner-freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Mon Apr 4 11:01:10 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-perl@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D7AAB02447 for ; Mon, 4 Apr 2016 11:01:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (unknown [127.0.1.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AE091037 for ; Mon, 4 Apr 2016 11:01:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 468BCB02446; Mon, 4 Apr 2016 11:01:10 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: perl@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4633FB02445 for ; Mon, 4 Apr 2016 11:01:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C6A371032; Mon, 4 Apr 2016 11:01:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from [10.0.2.26] (ppp14-2-123-113.lns21.adl6.internode.on.net [14.2.123.113]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id u34B0UGe033209 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 4 Apr 2016 20:30:42 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Perl vendor directory Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <436F5A55071BDCBDA00F0F3B@ogg.in.absolight.net> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 20:30:29 +0930 Cc: perl@FreeBSD.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <3827D28F-3562-4D9D-9BDD-7C3841622458@gsoft.com.au> References: <2490D243-A6AF-453A-A7AA-E7246CD57639@gsoft.com.au> <436F5A55071BDCBDA00F0F3B@ogg.in.absolight.net> To: Mathieu Arnold X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3124) X-Spam-Score: 0.413 () BAYES_00,HELO_MISC_IP,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 11:01:10 -0000 > On 4 Apr 2016, at 19:25, Mathieu Arnold 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