From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 06:13:36 GMT
Subject: Re: better way to find Git.pm officially?
Message-ID: <20120329061336.GE27604@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <86r4wc9f6j.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:58:12PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

> As in, find the git-svn binary (via git --exec-path), parse its second
> line to see where the git installer put the GITPERLLIB, and then add
> that myself.
> 
> Is there a simpler way?  Can we get "git --perl-path" added to the
> binary or something?

I always assumed that it was the responsibility of the user or the
packager to put Git.pm into a sane place that is found by perl's normal
lookup (possibly via the user's PERL5LIB if it is a per-user
installation). Doesn't our use of MakeMaker generally pick such a
suitable directory?

-Peff