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"Apple's Moy says the problem is due to the way Perl orders its module directory search path"

A while back I was a bit shocked to find out how badly the order of directory searching was broken in Perl because it seemed pretty obvious to me that user-specific directories should be searched before site-specific directories before "came with the distribution" directories (and that this is especially true for the easy-to-predict scenario of installing a new version of a "core" module). (I even read a thread at PerlMonks this week where this search-order breakage was implicated.)

I got pointed to some vague references to how "it has to be that way, for now" but could never find or get an explanation of how it got broken (I recall, in the long-distant past of doing porting, perhaps even for Perl 4, that this obvious case was properly handled, though I might be misremembering that) and what depends on that breakage.

I'd love to hear or be pointed to some background on that.

- tye        


In reply to Re: Apple says sorry for Mac Perl breakage (sort @INC) by tye
in thread Apple says sorry for Mac Perl breakage by andye

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