Le Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:14:23PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea écrivait: > POSIX > This is huge, ~1/3 of the total size of perl-base. While it may > be possible to move some or all of the autoloaded subroutines to > perl, I'd prefer to keep it together. > > I've seen some cases in dpkg where it is used for errno constants, > and have submitted a patch to use the Errno module instead. > > Are there other cases for this module that people know of? > tmpnam perhaps?
Yes, please don't drop it. It's used for internationalization of perl scripts including scripts that are in base. POSIX provides the setlocale call. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Le bouche à oreille du Net : http://www.beetell.com Naviguez sans se fatiguer à chercher : http://www.deenoo.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com
