[coldsync-hackers] Re: Perl

[Alessandro Zummo <azummo-coldsync2 at towertech dot it>]

 On 07-Mar-02 at 21:33:37,
  Daniel Lemire <lemire@ondelette.com> wrote:


> Good day,

> This is wrong because :

> 1) perl cannot find ColdSync.pm and all conduits will fail. This alone 
> is reason enough;

> 2) no other perl soft goes into /usr/local given my configuration.
>  For example, p5-Palm goes to /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 . 
> Basically, coldsync is the only perl soft I ever installed on my machine 
> that would go to /usr/local given my config.

AFAIK, every program I installed manually on my machine (Debian GNU/Linux)
choosed, by default, /usr/local/something .

This way you can easily recognize if a file comes from the distribution
system of your distribution or if you installed it manually.

Also, packages instaled locally have an higher priority...:

(this is from perl -V)

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Jan 11 2002 04:09:18
  @INC:
    /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1
    /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1
    /usr/lib/perl5
    /usr/share/perl5
    /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1
    /usr/share/perl/5.6.1
    /usr/local/lib/site_perl
    .

As you can see, /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 is searched before
the other standard directories. You can easily do you own
developent in /usr/local without clashing with any
file from your distribution.

-- 

  - alex.



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