Re: Where it runs or what it Does?? (RFC)

2002-11-16 Thread Soren A.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Soren A) wrote around 11 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > "namespace" advice requested. I have written an extension module that I > need to name and get uploaded to CPAN. For reasons that I cannot make a good guess at, it appears that no-one has read thi

Re: Notice of intention to release Perl module specific to Cygwin

2002-11-16 Thread Soren A.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Boyce) wrote around 14 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > So my answer is going only to the list. No problem. I got it. > At 04:29 AM 11/14/2002 +, Soren A wrote: >>I don't think that what my proposed module does is a good fit with the >>domain o

Re: MakeMaker autoconversion of module linefeeds?

2002-11-16 Thread Gurusamy Sarathy
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 19:34:10 EST, Michael G Schwern wrote: >On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:19:38PM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote: >> I'm not sure what it is we're trying to solve here--has there been >> a specific complaint we're trying to address? "If nothing is >> broken, don't fix it" etc. > >Yes,

Re: MakeMaker autoconversion of module linefeeds?

2002-11-16 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 11:00:56AM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote: > >Yes, yours. :) > >http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1999-04/msg02168.html > >http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1999-04/msg02144.html > > That's all over and done with, isn't it? I meant

Re: MakeMaker autoconversion of module linefeeds?

2002-11-16 Thread Ed Avis
The TO_UNIX feature runs on OS/2 but not on Windows? How odd. Myself I find that CVS converts linefeeds, so that checking out the code on a Windows system to build a distribution will make one with \r\n line endings. If the TO_DIST stuff doesn't currently run on Windows - the most obvious platfo

Re: MakeMaker autoconversion of module linefeeds?

2002-11-16 Thread Christopher Hicks
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:19:38PM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote: > > I'm not sure what it is we're trying to solve here--has there been > > a specific complaint we're trying to address? "If nothing is > > broken, don't fix it" etc. > > Yes, yours.

Re: MakeMaker autoconversion of module linefeeds?

2002-11-16 Thread Gurusamy Sarathy
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:53:43 EST, Michael G Schwern wrote: >Poking around in the 'dist' MakeMaker target, I figured out what the TO_UNIX >macro does. Its a command to convert all the files in the module to Unix >linefeeds just before its packed up into an archive (your original sources >are left a