Re: distgen enhancements

2008-02-27 Thread Michael G Schwern
demerphq wrote: File::pushd is simple and a no-frills version can be cut pasted into Module::Build. I prefer the descriptive local_chdir() over the very Unixy and cryptic pushd(). FYI: Theres nothing unixy about pushd, its been on windows computers for years (it dates back to CED and PCED on

Re: distgen enhancements

2008-02-27 Thread demerphq
On 28/02/2008, David Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry -- just catching up on this thread. { $dir-local_chdir(); ...do your stuff... } but that's probably out of my ken.

Re: distgen enhancements

2008-02-18 Thread demerphq
On 29/01/2008, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Wilhelm wrote: Hi Ken, I noticed some traffic in the commits and realized I had this stale patch laying around. I see there are still quite a few chdir()s in the test suite and thought this might be a good way to keep

Re: distgen enhancements

2008-02-18 Thread demerphq
On 18/02/2008, demerphq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/01/2008, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Wilhelm wrote: Hi Ken, I noticed some traffic in the commits and realized I had this stale patch laying around. I see there are still quite a few chdir()s in the

Re: distgen enhancements

2008-02-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from Michael G Schwern # on Thursday 14 February 2008 00:54: There's already a module to do this, File::pushd, and the sentinel approach is a little wonky. There's also File::chdir for another way to do it. Both will happily accept a Path::Class::Dir so I don't see

Re: distgen enhancements

2008-02-14 Thread Michael G Schwern
Ken Williams wrote: On Jan 29, 2008 8:34 AM, David Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 29, 2008 3:44 AM, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Module::Build. I prefer the descriptive local_chdir() over the very Unixy and cryptic pushd(). I've been thinking about adding a feature to

Re: distgen enhancements

2008-01-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
Eric Wilhelm wrote: Hi Ken, I noticed some traffic in the commits and realized I had this stale patch laying around. I see there are still quite a few chdir()s in the test suite and thought this might be a good way to keep things a little more organized. I think I just hadn't checked it

Re: distgen enhancements

2008-01-29 Thread David Golden
On Jan 29, 2008 3:44 AM, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Module::Build. I prefer the descriptive local_chdir() over the very Unixy and cryptic pushd(). Maybe I should add that as an alias in the next release. David

Re: distgen enhancements

2008-01-29 Thread Ken Williams
On Jan 29, 2008 8:34 AM, David Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 29, 2008 3:44 AM, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Module::Build. I prefer the descriptive local_chdir() over the very Unixy and cryptic pushd(). I've been thinking about adding a feature to Path::Class that

distgen enhancements

2008-01-28 Thread Eric Wilhelm
Hi Ken, I noticed some traffic in the commits and realized I had this stale patch laying around. I see there are still quite a few chdir()s in the test suite and thought this might be a good way to keep things a little more organized. I think I just hadn't checked it in because the method