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From: Brian Mathis <brian DOT mathis AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 18:40:07 -0500
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Subject: Re: Perl library request - local::lib
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On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Achim Gratz <Stromeko AT nexgo DOT de> wrote:
> Brian Mathis writes:
>> Please add the local::lib library to the available perl packages.
>
> It was a deliberate decision to not include it.  Just throwing out a
> request like that won't convince me otherwise, but I may change my mind
> if you have any arguments with substance.
>
>> This allows bootstrapping many other packages directly from cpan into
>> a local directory without polluting the main Cygwin files.
>
> This is still more error prone than one would like and I expect anyone
> capable of getting all the little things right to not have a problem
> with bootstrapping local::lib themselves (I'd do it via cpanm, but there
> are other ways of course).  Also, just by installing CPAN you aren't
> polluting main Cygwin files: the modules distributed with Cygwin install
> under perl_vendor, the modules installed by cpan will end up in
> perl_site.
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.
> --


I appreciate your feedback on this.  Is there somewhere that rationale
is laid out?  If there was a mailing list discussion, then I must have
missed it.  Would you happen to know where it would be in the archive?


Thanks
~ Brian

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