On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 09:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:00:06AM -0600, Ken Williams wrote:The only thing that sticks out at me is the "installdirs" key - is that
really meta-data about the distribution? It seems like it's a choice
the user makes when installing.
If installdirs: perl then its a core module. Site means its not. The user can change it from there if they like, but there is a default installation choice made by the author.
Well, some modules are core in 5.8 but not in 5.6, etc., so this wouldn't reflect reality on many systems. How about we change that to something like:
core: 5.6.0
Which indicates at what perl version *some* version of this module went into the core.
So, a module like Dumpvalue.pm, which is core in 5.6 but not in 5.005, could be installed into 'site' dirs for 5.005, and 'perl' for 5.6.
-Ken
