On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 04:44:15PM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > >So I guess what I'm saying here is I'm happy to code to the lowest common > >denominator, or there is no intersection to do things like "if this > >system has feature X, do Y". What I do not want is "if this *VMS* system > >has feature X, do Y." > > Unfortunately I can see no way to avoid the check for an OS name and > then if there then is an OS setting and maintain backwards compatibility > with older Perls where that OS setting was not even considered as a > possibility.
Put the logic in a module. Put the module on CPAN. And this part is really my fault. I've been meaning to write File::System::Spec and Operating::System::Spec for a long time now to allow easy answers to just these sorts of questions. It would wrap up the implementation details of discovering this information, such as calling VMS::Filespec. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern Stabbing you in the face for your own good.
