>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Robert> Some CPAN modules/tarfiles have filenames that have two
Robert> colons in them, e.g. foo::bar. While this works fine under
Robert> Unix/Linux, Windows complains. I believe MacOS 9 would balk
Robert> about this, too. Not sure about darwin/MacOS X.
No, that's not true. Hierarchies are represented by directories on the
CPAN - for example, for the Some::Module module, the hierarchy might be:
Some-Module-0.01.tar.gz:
Some/
Some/Module.pm
It's certainly the case with my CPAN modules, and any others that I've
seen. For example, in my /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.7.2/ directory:
lexis:chris~ % cd /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.7.2/
Attribute/ Exporter/ List/ Search/
B/ ExtUtils/ Locale/ Switch/
CGI/ File/ Math/ Term/
CPAN/ Filter/ Memoize/ Test/
Carp/ Getopt/ NEXT/ Text/
Class/ I18N/ Net/ Tie/
Devel/ IO/ Pod/ Time/
Encode/ IPC/ Scalar/ User/
Each of these directories would contain the modules under that
namespace; for example, in Text/:
lexis:chris...perl5/5.7.2/Text % ls
Abbrev.pm Balanced.pod Soundex.pm Wrap.pm
Balanced.pm ParseWords.pm Tabs.pm
Hope this helps.
- Chris.
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