Hi all, I recently uploaded File-Find-Object-0.1.6 to CPAN and got this errror report on MSWin32:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2009/01/msg3039451.html Reading from there, we see the following: {{{ Your vendor has not defined Fcntl macro S_IFLNK, used at C:/Perl/lib/Fcntl.pm line 214. # Looks like you planned 3 tests but ran 2. # Looks like your test exited with 255 just after 2. Dubious, test returned 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00) Failed 1/3 subtests }}} This appears multiple times for each test script. The reason it happens is that instead of doing -l / -d / -f / etc. I just do one stat() and then use S_IFLNK() from Fcntl on the mode field of stat (the one with index 2). (To save on system calls). Obviously, it doesn't work on Windows at that report. My questions are: 1. Can I ever expect it to work on Windows? 2. Is it fixed on perl-5.8.9 or perl-5.10.0 there? 3. The error report seems to come from ActivePerl (or otherwise a Perl that was built using MS DevStudio). Does S_IFLNK work better on Mingw32-based Perls? 4. Why doesn't Perl do the right thing with this macro, like it does using -l. To quote from the third edition of the Camel Book: {{{ Initially designed as a glue language for Unix, Perl has long since spread to most other operating systems. Because it runs nearly everywhere, Perl is one of the most portable programming environments available today. To program C or C++ portably, you have to put in all those strange #ifdef markings for different operating systems. To program Java portably, you have to understand the idiosyncrasies of each new Java implementation. To program a shell script portably, you have to remember the syntax for each operating system's version of each command and somehow find the common factor that (you hope) works everywhere. And to program Visual Basic portably, you just need a more flexible definition of the word "portable". :-) }}} So this is a step in the wrong direction. Please let me know if I should create a separate sub-class (or whatever) for handling Win32. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "Star Trek: We, the Living Dead" - http://xrl.us/omqz4 <mauke> I'm not interested in what you're doing; what are you trying to achieve? <PerlJam> mauke: I'm trying to achieve world peace and this regex is the last thing standing in my way! ;)
