MASTER_SITES/MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR for perl ports

[Anton Berezin]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 01:44:17AM -0800, milki wrote:
> On 10:39 Thu 10 Feb     , Anton Berezin wrote:
> > It is better to use modules/by-module because the author can
> > change, and for a number of modules changes pretty often.  This is
> > especially true for a number of modules developed by a community
> > wider than a single person.  In particular, a lot of Catalyst and
> > Moose-related modules "change" the author often from one release
> > to another.
> 
> Wouldn't an option be to actually dynamically generation the SUBDIR                                                                                                                                                                                                             
> based on cpan's 02package.details.txt then?

Could you clarify what you mean by that?

During the port creation/update by a maintainer?  Nothing prevents the
maintainer to use whatever tools to make this happen.

During the actual port installation?  I think that would be a bad
idea.

\Anton.
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