Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/

[Nathan Torkington]

Jarkko Hietaniemi writes:
> > True, but you can't do any of all that without knowing the platform
> > accurately (nontrivial and requires core mod or XS).  Once that's
> > done, the rest is just a matter of extending File::Spec
> > (trivial and pure Perl).
> 
> Trivial?  *cough* *snigger*

If it was trivial, Configure wouldn't need to exist--we could just use
hints files.  Lots of hints files.  One for each configuration, in
fact.  Hey Jarkko, I have an idea ... :-)

Nat