Just a couple of peripheral points that I didn't make earlier:

All well and good, but as it never gets added to the path, it will always require manual intervention for anything that uses it, to work

I consider this to be a bug in ActivePerl, or the person using it.
Surely $Config{installsitebin} should be in the path - even if no such directory exists initially.
The whole purpose of placing something in blib/script is that it will be installed into a "path" folder. Lots of modules put things in blib/script, for that very purpose.

The latter would avoid the need for --force

The need to use --force at all for what I'm doing is, IMO, a design flaw in PPM - which just makes having to do it all the more annoying.
All I'm doing is having PPM overwrite an existing file (installed by a previous 'ppm install') with an *identical* file.
If *I* had control over PPM, it would allow such overwriting - and call for '--force' only if the 2 files were different.
But ... there's not much I can do about that.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^7: Module::Install hacking by syphilis
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