# from David Golden # on Monday 30 July 2007 05:03 pm: >>Or, >> simply the hardcore CPAN author who put it in their .bashrc and >> forgot about it ^-- who will it bite first, will it be him, her, or me?
>> until some broken pod appeared in the middle of a >> big dependency stack. Environment variables are as global as they >> get. > >s/AUTHOR_TESTING/PERL_AUTHOR_TESTING/ > >And "hardcore" CPAN authors aren't the audience that this discussion >is trying to help. I admire your skillful rhetoric and valiant attempt to avoid typing `mkdir at`, but I fail to understand the resistance. I refer again to the "skipped more often than run" issue and the supposition that residents of warm climates tend not to keep their ski equipment next to the front door. --Eric -- Consumers want choice, consumers want openness. --Rob Glaser --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------------