Re^3: Activestate Perl module upgrade assistance

PPM will install by default into the first writable directory in @INC. Or you can specify the installation directory using the --area xxxx option. Use

    ppm area list

to get a list of the area names of your directories in @INC (normally just the last segment of the path for each directory, unless it is lib).

And for ActivePerl site/lib is already in front of lib.

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Re^4: Activestate Perl module upgrade assistance by grep101 (Initiate) on Jun 09, 2009 at 17:04 UTC
uh no - on AS Perl 5.8.4 @INC = 'xxx/lib', 'xxx/site/lib'; on AS Perl 5.8.8 @INC = 'xxx/site/lib', 'xxx/lib'; I had unproductive fun because of that :D	[reply]
Re^5: Activestate Perl module upgrade assistance by jand (Friar) on Jun 09, 2009 at 18:20 UTC
Ok, that's true for releases before 5.8.8 build 818 or so. In Perl 5.8.8 ActivePerl switched to PPM4 which allowed updating core modules by putting them into `site/lib`, so the order of directories in `@INC` had to be changed to make this sane. Generally I try to pretend that Perl versions less than 5.8.8 do not exist anymore. Sometimes I even succeed. :)	[reply] [d/l] [select]