On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:51:10AM +0000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Graham Barr wrote:
> 
> > If the inclusion of modules in distributions is common and t/ is not
> > acceptable then a common place should be agreeded. I almost suggested
> > this recently with the release of CPAN::MakeMaker which depends on .
> > being in @INC. But it has the side affect that everyone will have
> > CPAN::MakeMaker in thier dist on search.
> 
> I copied POE when I added ExtUtils::AutoInstall and put in in install/ to
> some of my modules. I think that's as good a place as any. Alternatively
> you could use a dot-dir.

A dot-dir is not very portable. At first I like the name install/
but then it dawned on me that it is very common for installations
to have a file called INSTALL, so a directory called install would
not work too well on platforms that are case insensetive (DOS, Mac
OS). Unfortunately this same argument goes against similar
names like build. So I dont have any better suggestion other than
something like privlib.

Graham.

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