Re^6: cpan and cpanplus and toolchain

e.g. the refusal to support PREFIX

Funny story: PREFIX never worked correctly within EUMM either. Like many EUMM features, it was broken by design and implementation. (Ask its maintainer sometime.)

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Re^7: cpan and cpanplus and toolchain by educated_foo (Vicar) on Mar 20, 2011 at 13:43 UTC
I actually know that story -- IIRC, PREFIX was "broken" in situations where people were doing weird things like using it along with INSTALL*LIB. For most PREFIX users, who just wanted to install Perl in their home directories or /opt/local, it worked just fine. In any case, even you must admit that M::B was extremely poorly executed. What could have been a completely transparent change became a multi-year headache.	[reply]

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by educated_foo (Vicar) on Mar 20, 2011 at 13:43 UTC

In any case, even you must admit that M::B was extremely poorly executed. What could have been a completely transparent change became a multi-year headache.

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