At 8:31 AM -0500 8/24/07, John E. Malmberg wrote: >Jos I. Boumans wrote:
>>Since MLC uses Module::Load, wouldn't it just be an easier fix to always >>unixify paths on VMS? >> >>How does this patch look for you? >> >>--- local/oss/module-load/lib/Module/Load.pm (revision 2064) >>+++ local/oss/module-load/lib/Module/Load.pm (revision 2065) >>+ $file = VMS::Filespec::unixify($file) if $^O eq 'VMS'; >Yes, it looks like it will work. So are you saying I should roll back #31746: http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/31746 and apply Jos's patch instead? > >Another issue has shown up with pp_require. It seems that if you are in >directory foo, and it has a parent directory in @INC, you can do a require >foo::bar and a require of bar.pm, and while they are the same file, this will >not be detected by pp_require, and both will be loaded. Does this happen on other platforms or just VMS? > >I do not see how this can be fixed except with a lot more code in pp_require >to check the parent directory. That seems unlikely to happen before 5.10. >And those checks may fail on VMS because "foo/" on VMS can be multiple >directories, such as "tom/", "dick/" and "harry/", so checking parent >directory of that file will return one of those, and not the "foo/" needed for >the matching the key to %INC. > >Using a different syntax for the keys to %INC could break existing code. > >It may be just better to document this as a limitation of the "require" >statement. > >-John >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Personal Opinion Only -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
