Re: a modest chainsaw

2008-09-16 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Sep 16, 2008, at 12:02, Eric Wilhelm wrote: Because you want to capture the output of a command or because you want to have quoting bugs? The former. What do you plan to replace these things with? If I knew that to a sufficient level of detail to make it clear, I would have code. P

Re: a modest chainsaw

2008-09-16 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from David E. Wheeler # on Tuesday 16 September 2008 10:25: >> _backticks()       - starts with an underscore > >I've used this one many times. I'd like to see it documented without   >the underscore. Because you want to capture the output of a command or because you want to have quoting bugs?

Re: a modest chainsaw

2008-09-16 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Sep 15, 2008, at 17:23, Eric Wilhelm wrote: Module::Build::Base is about four times as big as it should be and just looking at the quoting bugs makes me want to take a chainsaw to all of the following: run_perl_script() - has never been documented run_perl_command() - has never been docum