Re: pdd19_pir.pod: See C<docs/imcc/macros.pod>

["Reini Urban" <rurban@x-ray.at>]

2008/8/28 Moritz Lenz <moritz@casella.verplant.org>:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>> 2008/8/28 Moritz Lenz <moritz@casella.verplant.org>:
>>>> +=head1 DESCRIPTION
>>>> +
>>>> +Parrot installation mechanisms are more powerful than perl5's.
>>>> +MANIFEST contains also the end location, tools/dev/install_files.pl is 
>>>> driven
>>>> +by this definition.
>>>
>>> To me it's not clear what the "end location" is - care to elaborate?
>>
>> The end location by make install is a string concatation of
>
> [...]
>
> so it's basically the individual, final destination path for that file?

"final destination path" is of course much better.
Someone might be tempted to look for the PC game or the movie.

> Thanks for the explanation. My point is (and I admit that I wasn't
> very clear about it) that IMHO the term "end location" is ambigous
> (unless it's some kind of technical term with which I'm not familiar),
> and thus should be changed in the pdd.

My draft is very rough, and needs some more days.

I've also put into the parrot wiki, so that you can easily can change
things. I'll pick it up then.
http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot/index.cgi?parrot_installation
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