[rt-devel] Site Lib

Jesse Vincent jesse at bestpractical.com
Tue Jun 11 21:58:19 EDT 2002


Your perl site_lib exists for this sort of purpose. I'd recommend packaging 
addon modules with h2xs....   

3.0 will likely have a local/lib which corresponds to local/WebRT

	-j


On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 08:54:28PM -0500, Michael Grubb wrote:
> I would like to (and forgive me if this has been beaten to death already)
> propose that going forward a site_lib directory be included in the library 
> search path, where user contributions can be put.
> I have a patch for 2.0.13 to add this directory.  
> I think it is only logical as there is the local directory for the web ui in 
> which we are encouraged to place our customizations, so I think that it
> is only natural to by default provide a place for user modules that is safe 
> from upgrades.
> If any are interested in the patch (not that it was that hard to make) let me 
> know.
> I bring this up now because the new version of StockAnswers has a class module 
> that the UI uses to find the templates.  As such I have put this in the
> RT::AddOn namespace.  I certainly don't want to write my install process to 
> stick this module in the lib/RT directory, nor do I really want to put it in 
> the perl library directory.  I would appreciate any input as could be 
> helpful.  Any opinions are welcome. And if you just want to flame me,
> well I guess I can't stop you =]
> 
> Thanks for the feedback,
> 
> -Michael
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