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Interface idea. Existing share directory, or object wrapping around it could be passed into probe. 'oldshare' could be returned if it is sufficient for the alienfile's taste. This won't work,...

As of 0.34, `Alien::Build::MM` now provides the necessary information for this in the form of `install.old.prefix` and `install.old.runtime.version`. I think the best thing now is to provide some hooks into...

I don't think that faking a system install is going to quite work. I have some thoughts on this. Although I haven't thought about the details of this feature for...

further discussed briefly on `#native`: ``` I'll have to read it through, but my first impression is that it isn't really an install type but a further option to the...

@zmughal huh. Out of curiosity does the `tar.exe` that comes with Windows 10 work any better? That is also bsdtar, but built by Microsoft with their tools presumably.

> Also, that `tar.exe` is not available on [older builds of WIndows](https://renenyffenegger.ch/notes/Windows/dirs/Windows/System32/tar_exe). We only use `tar.exe` if it is found, but tbh I care less and less about older builds...

This would be nice to have, but you have to be using a pretty old OS for this to be useful, and we might just not support these environments.

Preferred way to handle this would be to migrate `Alien::GSL` to use `Alien::Role::Dino`, but note the caveats: https://metacpan.org/pod/Alien::Role::Dino#Your-Alien-becomes-a-run-time-dependency.

@hakonhagland I think that is a bug in cpanm, if you cpanm on the tarball it installs the prereqs correctly (at least it does for me). I think cpanm runs...

> It's not a bug the problem is you do not have the META.json in the repository for it to use before it runs Build.PL. MYMETA.json/yml should not be included,...