tall_man has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I would like to try out Perl6::Pugs on a system where I can only install under my home directory. It seems that the standard "PREFIX=" will not work with the Makefile.PL. I found the following code in PugsConfig.pm: 
sub add_path {
    my ($name, $config) = @_;
    my $path = $Config{$name} || '';
    $path =~ s/([\/\\])[^\/\\]*(perl)[^\/\\]*([\/\\]?)/$1${2}6$3/i
      or die <<".";
Can't generate the correct Perl6 equivalent for:
                                                                      
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    $path
    $config->{pugspath} =
      File::Spec->catfile($config->{bin}, "pugs$config->{exe_ext}");
                                                                      
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    ($config->{file_sep}) =
      ($Config{sitelib} =~ /([\/\\])/)
        or die "Can't determine file_sep";
                                                                      
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    return $config;
}

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This seems to imply that perl6 can only be installed in the same general area as perl5. If so, why was that done? Is there any work-around? Thanks.

Update: I moved my .cpan/build/Perl6-Pugs-6.0.11 to a new directory (to avoid getting clobbered by later CPAN installs). It appears that I can run pugs examples from here, so I am set for now.

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