On 11/20/05, Aaron Trevena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/19/05, Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:22 +0000, Aaron Trevena wrote:
> > > Right. But I don't see how this affects moving the templates from in
> > > the distribution root, to lib/ where they are easier to find.
> >
> > I'm a bit of a neophyte wrt CPAN, so I'm not sure I understand. Are you
> > talking about lib as in ~root/.cpan/.../Maypole-.../lib or /usr/lib?
>
> neither or both depends what you mean
>
> I've moved templates to lib in the distribution, which gets moved to
> wherever the module is installed, so any automated software, etc can
> access it at a known place.
>
> This also means the templates are available if you install via cpan,
> don't remember to copy the templates out of the build directory, and
> the build directory gets 'cleaned'.
>
> I think this is the right thing to do.
>
> > If the former, why is it any easier to find than
> > ~root/.cpan/.../Maypole-.../templates ? If the latter, then that's about
> > FHS.
>
> You don't keep important stuff where it will be deleted by sensible
> sysadmins or software - .cpan/build/ is a cache and so liable to be
> wiped when space is low either automatically or by any passing
> sysadmin, if you install manually chances are that after installation
> you remove the source/build directory as otherwise it just sits there
> gathering dust.
>
> A.

Moving the templates and/or the adding the new error handling code has
broken a few tests.

d.


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