Perl library request - local::lib
Brian Mathis
brian.mathis@gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 23:40:00 GMT 2017
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
> Brian Mathis writes:
>> Please add the local::lib library to the available perl packages.
>
> It was a deliberate decision to not include it. Just throwing out a
> request like that won't convince me otherwise, but I may change my mind
> if you have any arguments with substance.
>
>> This allows bootstrapping many other packages directly from cpan into
>> a local directory without polluting the main Cygwin files.
>
> This is still more error prone than one would like and I expect anyone
> capable of getting all the little things right to not have a problem
> with bootstrapping local::lib themselves (I'd do it via cpanm, but there
> are other ways of course). Also, just by installing CPAN you aren't
> polluting main Cygwin files: the modules distributed with Cygwin install
> under perl_vendor, the modules installed by cpan will end up in
> perl_site.
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.
> --
I appreciate your feedback on this. Is there somewhere that rationale
is laid out? If there was a mailing list discussion, then I must have
missed it. Would you happen to know where it would be in the archive?
Thanks
~ Brian
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