On Jan 7, 2008 1:34 PM, Richard Hainsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > Definitely a good idea for the implementation / implementors to decide > how to get a resource magically. > > But ... > I have run into situations where I wanted to have more control over > where specific resources were located, at least temporarily. And I could > not find a simple way to do it in perl5. > > Or is there some other magic I have not understood (and there is a lot I > dont understand) that would allow for this as perl6 is already specified? snip
I think you want the PERL5LIB environmental variable for Perl 5. I assume there will be a similar variable for Perl 6. snip > True. Yet this implies all Perl programmers write for platform > independence. My experience has been that when I was using perl under > windows, I had to use ppm made available by ActiveState. Whereas for > Linux, I could use CPAN directly. This indicates a conversion procedure > and rules of best practice for software whose authors want it to be used > cross-platform. > <snip> snip There is nothing that prevents you from using CPAN with ActivePerl on Win32 systems. Both nmake* and the compiler** are available from Microsoft for free and you only need the compiler for XS based modules. The ppm packages are just for your convenience. * http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q132084 ** http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/#webInstall
