LPM: Monday's meeting

Frank Price fprice at mis.net
Thu May 4 16:11:46 CDT 2000


On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 09:26:52PM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote:

> Since I did not get a confirmation from the unnamed volunteer, I suppose
> that we are still looking for someone to speak about something on
> Monday. Or for someone to suggest a topic that we can discuss, and
> perhaps one or more people can speak about as the spirits move them. Any
> takers?

I'll suggest a topic for discussion (on list or at meeting).  I'm
working on a biggish project that will have files in many different
places.  I want the installer to be able to decide, at install time,
where these files will reside.  For instance, you could say "install
--config=/usr/local/etc --out=/var/httpd/docs/", and the script would
actually be changed (or the config file, or whatever).

Realizing that I could write a little script to do this, is there some
module already written that will handle it?  MakeMaker seems pretty close,
but I don't see how to customize it for what I want.

Any good ideas?

-Frank
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