>I'm developing a CGI application. It includes a perl module that >gets installed in the usual place, some command-line scripts that >should go in INSTALLSCRIPT and some CGI scripts that need to go into >a cgi-bin directory. > >What is my best strategy for handling installation?
The cgi-bin directory will be in wildly different places from one system to the next, so there's nothing you can do. Besides, adding CGI programs to a live website is a security concern (I'm not saying your programs are insecure, just that it's a decision the administrator must make) so they should be copied in by hand. Just print a warning message listing the CGI programs that should be installed. If you are thinking of a particular system, and a particular place to put the CGIs, then it would probably be best to keep them out of the Makefile.PL (which is supposed to apply to all systems) and just have a shell script which runs make and then copies a couple of files with cp. -- Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
