Perl vendor directory

[Daniel O'Connor]

> On 4 Apr 2016, at 19:25, Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> The vendor prefix is only enabled when you build Perl with
> PERL_VENDOR_PREFIX defined.

Ahh OK..

> The vendor prefix is supposed to be used by vendors to put their stuff
> there, so that it does not conflict with the Perl distribution or the
> regular Perl modules.
> 
> ZM should be a good boy and install its stuff in site, like eveyrbody else.
> (It could also like some bad boys install its stuff wherever it wants too,
> like in a hierarchy it handles itself, but it's not really a good idea.)

I guess they have a differing opinion :)
I have no idea what the "right" way is - I haven't touched perl in a long time :)

I only brought it up because the ZM devs seem to think the vendor path is the right place (perhaps it is on Linux..?)

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