On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Eric Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote: >>PREFIX is non-viable, which is why Module::Build went away from it and >>only emulated it (right?)
Not sure what "emulate" would mean - we support it and fully implement it. >>under massive pressure from people to not >>break something that USED to work under EU:MM. Yes, massive pressure. =) > Right. I think the unix users have also gotten used to administration > of things which use PREFIX. So, for situations where an admin would > expect an application to install stuff in $PREFIX/share/application -- > what is our solution? Our solution in that case is just to use $PREFIX (a.k.a. --prefix). If it's what the user needs there's nothing wrong with using it. The problem with it was that in many cases it just didn't solve the user's needs, so something different was needed. In general the only person who should be setting --prefix or --install_base or --install_path is the end user. There's no way the module author can anticipate where on the user's system stuff should be put. -Ken
