Re: VMS and Unix pathnames

2009-08-25 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:48:17PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: > But the bottom line is, get the t/TEST change into blead -- it doesn't > significantly change the number of minor mysteries that need > investigating and fixing. Thanks for checking this. It's in blead as of 7ebf5c89e8918d77e17

Re: VMS and Unix pathnames

2009-08-24 Thread Craig A. Berry
On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:58 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote: Nicholas Clark wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:40:44AM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: Nicholas Clark wrote: Currently the core uses File::Spec inside the test running script, t/TEST, that VMS uses. If I understand perlvms.pod correctly,

Re: VMS and Unix pathnames

2009-08-24 Thread John E. Malmberg
Nicholas Clark wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:40:44AM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: Nicholas Clark wrote: Currently the core uses File::Spec inside the test running script, t/TEST, that VMS uses. If I understand perlvms.pod correctly, perl on VMS can understand Unix-like pathnames directly.

Re: VMS and Unix pathnames

2009-08-24 Thread Craig A. Berry
On Aug 24, 2009, at 5:12 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote: Currently the core uses File::Spec inside the test running script, t/ TEST, that VMS uses. If I understand perlvms.pod correctly, perl on VMS can understand Unix-like pathnames directly. I'd like to remove File::Spec from t/TEST, as it's somet

Re: VMS and Unix pathnames

2009-08-24 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:40:44AM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: > Nicholas Clark wrote: > >Currently the core uses File::Spec inside the test running script, t/TEST, > >that VMS uses. If I understand perlvms.pod correctly, perl on VMS can > >understand Unix-like pathnames directly. > > > >I'd lik

Re: VMS and Unix pathnames

2009-08-24 Thread John E. Malmberg
Nicholas Clark wrote: Currently the core uses File::Spec inside the test running script, t/TEST, that VMS uses. If I understand perlvms.pod correctly, perl on VMS can understand Unix-like pathnames directly. I'd like to remove File::Spec from t/TEST, as it's something complex run too early in te

VMS and Unix pathnames

2009-08-24 Thread Nicholas Clark
Currently the core uses File::Spec inside the test running script, t/TEST, that VMS uses. If I understand perlvms.pod correctly, perl on VMS can understand Unix-like pathnames directly. I'd like to remove File::Spec from t/TEST, as it's something complex run too early in testing. Would the appende