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Moin,

On 19-Nov-01 Michael G Schwern tried to scribble about:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:11:51PM +0100, Tels wrote:
>> oh, related to:
>> 
>> http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2001-11/msg01172.h
>> tml
>> 
>> ?
> 
> Yes.  You can pretty much just make them thin wrappers around the
> appropriate File::Spec method to preserve the MM interface and mention
> that their use is deprecated in favor of File::Spec.

Cool ;o) Will do so. So the test simple fall down to see if the methods
exists and are callable and do something simple. (I assume that
File::Spec::catfile etc are sufficiently tested and we don't need to
repeat it there...)

>     sub canonpath {
>         return File::Spec->canonpath($_[1]);
>     }

I'd written return File::Spec->canonpath(@_); just in case ;)

> or if you're feeling really compact
> but that might be getting a little silly.

It are only 4-5 methods...

> This also means you can completely junk all the versions of these
> methods in the subclasses.  Anything that reduces the size of
> MakeMaker has to be a good thing.

Thought so. ;o) I assume this patch needs also to Cced to were the
official makemaker lives? CPAN? (Note to self: Check this tomorrow)

Cheers,

Tels

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