Re: Sybperl2.17 Installation
Michael Peppler <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.sybase |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 15:23, [email protected] wrote: > My USD0.02: > > As both a Perl programmer and the de-facto Perl environment manager here, I side > with your admin. The FIRST installation of any version of any CPAN module > should never go into the default perl tree. Yes - you are of course absolutely right about this. One should always test any new thing before putting it into production. I wouldn't dream of applying a Sybase EBF to a production server without testing it on a development/test system first, and the same is true for just about any software package. > Also, I tend to define installation late at the install stage: > > make test install PREFIX=/mylib > > That way, I don't have to re-execute (or forget to re-execute) perl Makefile.PL > every time I change the installation location. That's a good suggestion as is the suggestion to place local modules in non-system directories. That's always been my practice as well. Michael -- Michael Peppler Data Migrations, Inc. [email protected] http://www.peppler.org/ Sybase T-SQL/OpenClient/OpenServer/C/Perl developer available for short or long term contract positions - http://www.peppler.org/resume.html