I guess I have not explained myself clearly - or I just don't
understand the answer -
during development I like to be able to run the application from the development
environment without any pre-processing. Without and "installation phase".
So during development I'd like to get my application to look in the
directories in the development
environment.
If I need to "install" it to some directory controlled by local::lib
that will be an extra step in my development process
and, for example in case of a web development, that will mean I can't
just change a template file, while the
application is running and reload it, I now have to first "install"
it. Even if only in a private directory.
I think there are two issues I have to deal with for such setup:
1) recognizing I am in a development environment
2) accessing a path based on that recognition
The former can be done either by looking at an environment variable or
looking around in the file-system for some clue.
In this project I use the latter and if I understand it correctly
Yanick suggested the former with $ENV{DEV}.
I am not sure then when will that environment variable be set?
(In some other projects I have a "dev" script for it and that script
sets this variable.)
Though on a second look, Yanick, I don't even understand what does
that code do? :)
Gabor
