Re: Auto installdirs

Ken Williams wrote:
> One problem with this solution to setting installdirs:
> 
>   installdirs   => ($] >= 5.009004 ? 'core' : 'site'),   #A
> 
> is that an auto-generated Makefile.PL will get a static setting for
> INSTALLDIRS.  This is of course the problem with any dynamic settings
> in Build.PL that are expected to propagate to Makefile.PL (or META.yml
> for that matter) - they get frozen at `Build dist` time.
> 
> One way to solve this particular item would be like so:
> 
>   installdirs_auto   => 5.009004,  #B

became_core_at?


> which would effectively function like #A, and generate in the Makefile.PL:
> 
>   INSTALLDIRS   => ($] >= 5.009004 ? 'perl' : 'site'),  #C
> 
> Now, does that do everything we'd want?  What about the 'vendor' dirs?
>  Are those ever even fricking used anyway?

vendor is used for modules that come from OS vendor packages, rpm, dpkg, 
etc....  But you would never have a reason to hard code vendor.


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