Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Hallo Max, > > Am Donnerstag, 12. August 2004 um 00:47 schriebst du: > >> Would it be possible to package the extra modules included in the Cygwin >> perl package in the vendor_perl hierarchy? > > Sure, this is obviously a good thing.
Thanks! I look forward to 5.8.6 or whatever. >> This would leave the site_perl hierarchy clear for site additions, and allow >> site additions to be purged without affecting parts of the package. > > More interesting is that you can install your own version which goes > to site_perl and overrides the distributed version in vendor_perl > which is last path in the search order. I've never understood that. It seems to me that "site, vendor, core" would be a better order - to allow core modules to be upgraded by a package. Or am I missing something? Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
