On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Paul Howarth <[email protected]> wrote: [snip] > I don't really see any great harm in installing modules to perl/core > directories rather than vendor directories. I also like this nice, > simple set of paths. > > However, the plan envisages third-party repositories sticking with > vendor directories and I'm not sure that's going to happen. If I need a > module for my own repository and Fedora already has some version of it, > I just grab that version, update it as necessary and built it. So I'll > inherit the use of the perl/core directories unless I explicitly revert > back to vendor directories. Other repositories might also want to > maintain as close compatibility with Fedora as possible and would use > that as justification for using perl/core too.
I agree. Marcela's proposal is fine in principle, but unlikely to achieve much in practice. There are also tools like cpanspec to consider: presumably we'll want our cpanspec to use perl/core directories by default, so anyone else using it for packaging will end up doing the same as well. > I thought the conventional structure of having modules bundled with perl > (the perl core) going to perl/core directories and everything else > that's packaged (including dual lived modules) going to vendor > directories made good, intuitive sense, and I think that's what upstream > intended too. Moreover, it seems to be widespread policy elsewhere: I really don't see a good reason for users/3rd parties to need to install RPMs using a different path. The only conceivable reason I can think of would be to override a dual-life part-of-perl-rpm core module with a newer version; but even in that case, I'd much rather see the module split into a sub-package so that it can be replaced as normal by a newer RPM using vendor dirs. > So overall I'm in favour of using the F-15 set of paths (assuming the > typos are fixed) but sticking with the vendor directories for everything > apart from the perl core. +1 to that. -- Iain. -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel
