On Sun 21 Mar 2004 06:05, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 01:13:49PM -0800, Jan Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:36:54 -0700, Jan Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > >On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:12:22 -0700, Gurusamy Sarathy
> > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >>On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:42:22 PDT, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > >>>I'd tend to agree, the line between win32.c and libwin32 seems artificial.  
> > >>>It also looks like libwin32 is practically a necessity to get anything 
> > >>>interesting done on Win32. What say, Jarkko of Borg and Sarathy of State?
> > >>
> > >>I don't think all of libwin32 belongs in the core.  The parts that
> > >>are documented in Win32.pod should certainly be added to the core,
> > >>as we've discussed in the past:
> > >>
> > >>  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-01/msg00381.html
> > >>
> > >>I haven't seen any patches, though.
> > >
> > >I can look into moving Win32.pm/Win32.xs (but nothing else) into the core.
> > >This should happen *after* 5.8.1 and libwin32 0.20 have been released.
> > >Hectic patching right now will just create a mess.
> > 
> > Ok, I've finally remembered to do this.  In addition to the patches included
> > below, the following files need to be *added*:
> > 
> >   win32/ext/Win32/Makefile.PL
> >   win32/ext/Win32/Win32.pm
> >   win32/ext/Win32/Win32.xs
> > 
> > They are all included in the attached tarball.  Please also *delete* the file
> > 
> >   lib/Win32.pod
> > 
> > The documentation is now included in Win32.pm.
> > 
> > The included Win32 module also contains the new Win32::IsAdmin() function
> > supplied by Steve Hay.
> 
> I'd like to have Win32/ under the main ext/ directory instead, with a
> patch to Configure to exclude it.  This will make it easier to patch
> things to get Win32 built for cygwin also (which I hope to see happen
> in the not-too-distant future

Moved to the perl5-build list

Color me unix centered if you like, but to be honoust I don't have the
faintest idea what you're talking about :)

I'm the Configure pumpking/maintainer, and open to every improvement, but I
first want to understand what and why

The current state is that OS specific stuff is in root/OS, like VMS, OS2 and
win32. I don't see (yet) why win32 should be moved to ext/

What do I miss?

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