VMSish Perl support reusable in other projects?

[BG - Ben Armstrong]

I'm interested in the work John and others are doing on VMSish issues, particularly the recent work on pipes, because I will likely need this for the VMS port of Ruby I seem to have inherited when the former maintainer dropped off the scene.  Is any portion of this packagable in a way that can easily be reused in other projects, or do I need to continue to do as I have done in the past, which is to copy and adapt code from VMS Perl, as it appears John is doing right now with bash?

Ben