On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 04:13:27PM +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> On Mon, 1 May 2000, Chris Nandor wrote:
>
> > Yes. You can have a distribution called, for example, MailTools or libnet
> > or TimeDate without a MailTools.pm or libnet.pm or TimeDate.pm (Hi,
> > Graham!).
>
> OK, so if I set Makefile.PL to have:
>
> NAME => 'Apache::AxKit',
> DISTNAME => 'AxKit',
>
> will CPAN install that in the Apache/ directory, or in the AxKit
> directory? ExtUtils::MakeMaker doesn't say anything about that, and I
> don't exactly want to try it to see what happens ;-)
It will install it in the directory for the module in NAME. DISTNAME
is only an override to the code which will normally generate the
distname from the NAME entry.
Graham.
Hi Chris!
