Re: [MacPerl] Using UNIX style filenames with MacPerl

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

At 4:30 PM +0200 5/14/98, Gerald Young wrote:

}
} Hmm; and Millions of MacPerl users have to hand-edit UNIX CPAN scripts.
} Clever?

Oh, please.  First, there aren't "millions of MacPerl users".  Second, the
routines that I've used from CPAN either don't have any Unix paths at all
or look for things like /etc/resolv.conf or $ENV{HOME}/.signature.  For
those you have to edit anyway.  Module authors should be encouraged to not
use Unix paths where they're not necessary (in a use or require, for
example, where there almost never necessary) and to put override
envirnoment variables first ($signature = $ENV{SIGNATURE} ||
$ENV{HOME}/.signature).  But that's about all that can reasonable be done,
since Perl provides no support for constructing paths (File::Spec is a
primitive try).

MacOS isn't Unix (yet).  Perl is a Unix tool ported to MacOS.  Those tools
that don't allow / in MacOS file/folder names are broken.  When
Rhapsody/MacOS X comes, a solution will probably present itself.  I'm
certainly curious to see what Apple does about the path problem.

}
} -- Gerald
}



- -----
Paul J. Schinder
schinder@pobox.com

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0
Charset: noconv

iQA/AwUBNVsFc1ZaVc52j0XhEQK4LgCg3eMyFsCmYRG8zB0QwtSz8jm1wOAAn3YS
wDeMibXk2A7vGwQ/k5xRN1Rp
=QyFZ
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

***** Want to unsubscribe from this list?
***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch