On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Graham Barr wrote: > 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.
Good point - I ran into that with AxKit and had forgotten about it (though I took the option of renaming INSTALL to INSTALL.txt). Perhaps "noinstall" would be better. The only downside is "noinstall" is 9 letters, which might get abbreviated on deprecated operating systems. -- <!-- Matt --> <:->Get a smart net</:->
