Re: [Inconsequential] Strawberry Perl and MM

For the most part, any modules that are bundled with Strawberry from CPAN as opposed to the core Perl source are put in site/lib. (E.g. a more up-to-date version of ExtUtils::MakeMaker.) The exceptions are patches to core modules to let CPAN.pm upgrade core modules at all. (At least, that's what I think my logic was at the time.) Better suggestions welcome.

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Re^2: [Inconsequential] Strawberry Perl and MM_Win32.pm by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jan 20, 2007 at 23:37 UTC
Better suggestions welcome No, I don't have a better suggestion - though I would do it differently. Normally, when one updates a core module on Win32, it goes into perl/lib, clobbering the old version in the process. I personally don't see any reason to change that behaviour. Looking a little more closely at the Strawberry distro, we see there are still some MakeMaker modules in perl/lib/ExtUtils - eg EU::Liblist, which is duplicated in perl/site/lib/ExtUtils. (I think the duplicated modules are identical. One hopes so, as its the ones in perl/lib/ExtUtils that will be loaded.) If EU::MM is going into perl/site/lib then I think it would be a good idea to remove all of the MakeMaker modules from perl/lib/ExtUtils. Anyway .... nothing to lose any sleep over. I was merely taken aback for a few minutes when I went to open MM_Win32.pm and it wasn't there !! :-) Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^3: [Inconsequential] Strawberry Perl and MM_Win32.pm by xdg (Monsignor) on Jan 21, 2007 at 13:31 UTC
I was merely taken aback for a few minutes when I went to open MM_Win32.pm and it wasn't there `perldoc -m ExtUtils::MM_Win32` [download] This (along with "-l") is a handy feature of `perldoc`. I have $ENV{PAGER} set to "less.exe" and $ENV{EDITOR} set to "gvim.exe" so after the command above, I just type "v" and it pops me into the editor with the right file. It saves having to navigate directories. -xdg Code written by xdg and posted on PerlMonks is public domain. It is provided as is with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind. Posted code may not have been tested. Use of posted code is at your own risk.	[reply] [d/l] [select]