# from Greg Matheson
# on Monday 22 January 2007 08:09 pm:
>But what if they have an executable of the same name that is
>clobbered by one of my scripts?
That depends on the name. LWP is the only example I can think of, and
of course it asks whether you want HEAD, GET, and such installed (and
IIRC defaults to no on systems without case-sensitivity) but I believe
that lwp-* are installed without asking.
If you're installing ls, cp, dir, or something similar, this should
definitely be a prompt() and default to no. If it's GregCalc or
something more creative, you're probably okay. Google.
>It seems there is no good solution. Should I just let them
>install them? They probably don't know how. I don't really want
>to find out how to install executables in Windows. I guess it
>means putting them on the desktop somewhere.
If these are command-line apps, simply put them in your own c:
\progra~1\something\bin directory or whatever. Mention the $PATH
variable in the readme.
GUI apps should probably get a start menu entry, but I would guess most
users wouldn't want to install those from CPAN unless `build install`
is launching a graphical installer with the familiar "what directory?",
"start menu?" and "desktop?" questions.
--Eric
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