Re: pop @INC (".")

On Mar 8, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Jan Dubois wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Mar 2012, David Golden wrote:>> Let me answer your points in reverse order.>> >>> Does anyone besides me share my concern that putting "." in the path>>> isn't always necessarily desirable?>> >> I agree that it's not always desirable, but I'm not convinced that>> it's never desirable, either. Or rather, if undesirable, how/when>> should it be removed from @INC. Optionally with "-T" or mandatory>> enforcement by the interpreter?> > I find it always undesirable.  What I usually want is mylib.pm,> and '.' in @INC does provide similar functionality while testing> from inside the script directory:> >    http://search.cpan.org/dist/mylib/mylib.pm> > If I really wanted '.' in @INC, then -I. is a cheap commandline> option, or "BEGIN { push @INC, '.' }" a trivial script addition.> > But as I already said, I never really want '.' in @INC, I either> want $FindBin::RealBin, or the directory pushed by mylib.pm.> > So I think a Configure option to build perl without '.' in @INC> would be fine (and core tests should be updated to accommodate that),> but a forced -T does not feel right to me.

Jan says it better than me. This is my thinking.