On Monday, March 25, 2002, at 06:59 , Autrijus Tang wrote: > Whoa there, wait! > >> Yields nothing but filenames like "7bit-greek.enc" is an obvious >> violation. > > The other parts of perl, too, has names longer than 8.3. even > UNIVERSAL.pm > has a 9.2 name. This is not a problem, per se.
I have notice that, too. But isn't duplicate prevention enough? I am no expert in vanilla FAT and vanilla DOS but if UNIVERSAL.pm gets truncated to UNIVERSA.pm, isn't use UNIVERAL; in trouble? Or perl on such systems are smart enough to load UNIVERSA.pm (I guess this is the case). > The check83.pl checks for *duplicates* in 8.3 file system. This is to > say, > if I have two files, named > > DanKogaiSan.pm > DanKogaiHacker.pm > > They will both become 'Dankogai.pm' in 8.3 filesystems, yielding a > conflict. Thus ISO_2022_JP.pm and ISO_2022_JP_1.pm was conflicting. > Hence, I'm not aware of any need to retrofit all the encoding files into > 8.3 format, nor is there a *fix* Supported to Supports, EncFormat to > Format/Enc, or other craziness. The merit of enc => ucm is a separate > issue > altogether, and I'm not very convinced the size bloat is worth it. Size reduction was a byproduct of */Makefile.PL linting. As for "Encode::Supports", there is another concern in perldoc; is perldoc smart enough to 8.3-ize filenames? Well, I didn't really enjoy renaming files myself.... Dan the Man with Too Many Files to Watch Over
