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How can I control the location of that script when the end-user installs this module?

What do you mean by this?

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Re^2: Building a CPAN distribution having a script with Dist::Milla
by unlinker (Monk) on Jun 08, 2013 at 07:53 UTC
    I want to distribute a script with my module. When someone downloads my distribution and installs with (say) cpanm, this script should get installed in a location that is listed in the user's $PATH. How can I achieve this
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      I want to distribute a script with my module. When someone downloads my distribution and installs with (say) cpanm, this script should get installed in a location that is listed in the user's $PATH. How can I achieve this

      See http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/Minilla#script_files

      script_files get installed into installsitescript 

      $ perl -V:installsitescript
installsitescript='C:\citrusperl\site\bin';

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      You should already have installsitescript in your $PATH

      So, just drop the file to get installed into a scripts or a bin directory, and after minilla is done packaging/publishing... and you try to install, it should go into installsitescript, which is the default and expected thing

      Does that answer your question?

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        Yes it does, completely and precisely. You have referred to the minilla docs, while my question pertained to Dist::Milla. But both are related and I guess both install whatever is in script/ to installsitescript. Thank you for the response.
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