At 02:26 PM 4/3/2001 -0700, Peter Prymmer wrote:
>On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>
>> Personally I can't imagine a situation where I would install Perl on
>> top of an existing installation,
>A place where you might do that is on Unix
Right, but I was responding to the suggestion that we do this by default on
VMS. Thanks for the interesting commentary on how this works on various
platforms. You really ought to write a book, "Cross-platform Perl in a
Nutshell" or something like that.
>> you burn up twice as much disk space
>> as necessary if you use the build tree as an installed location.
> `mms clean` is your friend.
Even so, you seem to end up with a lot more stuff than if you install to a
new location.
>Perhaps we ought to document that more
>prominently in README.vms? Perhaps too we ought to give an example of a
>_proper_ prefix setting in README.vms?
Yes, yes :-).
>How about if we set the default to a similar string to the build
>directory:
>
> e.g. build e.g. dflt prefix
> DKA100:[PERL-5_6_1] DKA100:[PERL_ROOT-5_6_1.]
>
>OK - so how about something like that?
Yes, I like that.
