On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Achim Gratz <strom...@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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple