Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl installation, folders

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:55:30PM +0200, Axel Rose wrote:
> :> Why is there a "MacPerl Scripts" and a "macscripts" folder?
> :> Why is there an "ext" folder with mostly .t files? Is this for
> :> testing - then why isn't it named appropriately?
> 
> :This is the way programming environment distributions look, as a rule.
> :It's not even that MacPerl is based on UNIX Perl, it's just that there is
> :a lot of stuff. I sympathize to some degree, and I suppose the argument
> :can be made that some rationalization of folder placements
> :and names could occur.
> 
> Thanks for sympathising :-)
> You're right. A lot of stuff. But with Unix Perl my folders look more
> clean. /usr/bin/perl, <lib>/perl, <doc>/perl, that's it.

That's the installed Perl, not the distribution.  The Perl distribution
includes the following directories:

Porting
cygwin32
eg
emacs
ext
h2pl
hints
lib
os2
plan9
pod
qnx
t
utils
vms
win32
x2p


Ronald

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