On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 06:23:26PM -0700, Scott Stanton wrote:
> That actually raises another question I've had for a while.  Why are
> some packages extracted to hashed names, while others are extracted to
> their original names under the inc/lib subdirectory in the cache?  I
> don't see the benefit of the hashed names if the files are going to be
> put under inc/lib anyway.  

The hash re-naming of packages is also the only reason PAR can't
*unpack* Gtk2-perl applications -- it packs them correctly.

I was able to get PAR to work with Gtk2-perl by extracting all
the packed modules into a non-renamed lib dir and then filtering
PAR's @INC subs out of the stack.

I'm sure there's a good reason for doing the hash renaming, but
it seems to make an awful lot of things not work.  Is it worth
it?

-Paul

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