I don't think I've ever run Perl on VMS without it, so mandatory is fine
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From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 7:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [ID 20000330.044] Not OK: perl v5.6.0 on VMS_AXP V7.1
At 03:58 PM 4/3/00 -0400, Charles Lane wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > At this point I'm thinking we might as well officially make perl_root
> > mandatory. We haven't been able to live without it for ages (if ever)
and
> > it's the one thing that makes install on an ODS-2 reasonably flexible,
> > so...
>
>In my mind, the difficulty with @INC, $^X and other "internal to Perl"
>methods is that they too easily run afoul of users messing about or even
>doing sensible things, and generating unexpected side-effects.
Yeah, I agree. And if you embed perl someplace it fails then as well, as
$^X may have no relationship to where the library is.
I think making PERL_ROOT official and mandatory's the way to go.
Dan
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