Re: Prefixification and VMS

2002-04-20 Thread Craig A. Berry
At 1:05 AM -0400 4/20/02, Michael G Schwern wrote: So here's the list o' obstacles to proper prefixifying on VMS. - Obviously, you can't just concatenate paths. True, and the very name prefix suggests that you can. What we really mean by prefix on VMS is a device and directory spec that can be

Re: Major skipcheck() bug.

2002-04-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 04:03:54PM +1000, Ken Williams wrote: but skipcheck() really returns two array refs, one to a list of files found and one to files missing. It doesn't list the files skipped due to your MANIFEST.SKIP. Even that documentation is ambiguous. If you have a directory

Re: Prefixification and VMS

2002-04-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 11:05:05AM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: At 1:05 AM -0400 4/20/02, Michael G Schwern wrote: So here's the list o' obstacles to proper prefixifying on VMS. - Obviously, you can't just concatenate paths. True, and the very name prefix suggests that you can. What we

Re: Major skipcheck() bug.

2002-04-20 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 13:17:07 -0400, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 04:03:54PM +1000, Ken Williams wrote: but skipcheck() really returns two array refs, one to a list of files found and one to files missing. It doesn't list the files skipped due to

Re: Major skipcheck() bug.

2002-04-20 Thread Ken Williams
On Sunday, April 21, 2002, at 12:26 PM, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: Ken's problem is a real one, albeit degenerate. The reason why this problem came up, is an underspecification of the semantics of the MANIFEST.SKIP file. The original specification did only think of files, not directories.

Re: Major skipcheck() bug.

2002-04-20 Thread Ken Williams
On Sunday, April 21, 2002, at 04:06 PM, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:30:10 +1000, Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The only assumption I'm making (this is valid, right?) is that if a regex matches a directory, it will also match each file inside that directory. I