2009/1/23 Eric Wilhelm <[email protected]>: > Ok, so Module::Build would look for a sharedir in Config.pm and > File::ShareDir would do the same?
That would be the basic idea, yes. Although a real might need to be a little more nuanced. > That sounds reasonable, but what about an application which simply wants > to decide on some install path (managing runtime reads itself - without > the help of File::ShareDir)? I think this might get into the whole > business of PREFIX, which is that unix folks expect that they can > install in $PREFIX/share/myapp or something, but IIRC not even OS X > fully supports this notion of a PREFIX. PREFIX is non-viable, which is why Module::Build went away from it and only emulated it (right?) under massive pressure from people to not break something that USED to work under EU:MM. Adam K
