On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Jan Dubois <j...@activestate.com> wrote: > I wonder if it isn't time to deprecate all the complex install combinations > that may have made sense when hard disks was rather limited. > > In ActivePerl we enforce a pretty simplified install layout to be able to > create an intuitive package manager: > > no sharing of directories between different versions > every install area has its own bin, etc, lib, and html subdirectories > the etc subdirectory records packages installed in that location
I think that ship already sailed, if only because different distributions have very different layouts. > Anyways, I just wanted to say that without putting some restrictions on how > modules (and corresponding scripts) can be installed, creating a package > manager would seem to get even more complex than ExtUtils::Makemaker... :) What kind of restrictions are you thinking about exactly? Leon
