Re: Policy for installing multilingual documentation

What's the best place to install the Japanese documentation? My first thought was to install it as Audio::Beep_jp, but i'm not sure that's correct.

If I were you, I'd have two files containing pod, One in English, one in Japanese, and at Makefile.PL time I'd copy one of them to the appropriate spot (lib/Audio/Beep.pod)

Would it be acceptable to render Makefile.PL interactive and ask which version of the documentation to install?

Yes, but be sure to have a default

Could it broke non-interactive installations by CPAN Testers?

Absolutely. You'll be fine as long as you use ExtUtils::MakeMaker's prompt function or its equivalent.

What about checking some locale variable to automatically make a choice? But my guess is it could be error prone, so i'm not sure.

Locale isn't neccessarily revealing, and even if you do some detecting, you should still prompt.

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MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.