On Sun 21 Mar 2004 18:59, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 01:33:13PM +0100, "H.Merijn Brand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun 21 Mar 2004 06:05, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Moved to the perl5-build list > > I'd neved heard of this list. It doesn't seem to be listed at > lists.perl.org ??
It isn't. I've mailed Elaine, but got no reply > > Color me unix centered if you like, but to be honoust I don't have the > > faintest idea what you're talking about :) > > > > I'm the Configure pumpking/maintainer, and open to every improvement, but I > > first want to understand what and why > > > > The current state is that OS specific stuff is in root/OS, like VMS, OS2 and > > win32. I don't see (yet) why win32 should be moved to ext/ > > > > What do I miss? > > The Win32 module should be built for both root=win32 and root=cygwin. Ahh, like an extension? > (A patched version both of the stuff from libwin32 and the built-in > Win32 XS stuff from win32/win32.c are current available separately for > cygwin, but the changes should be integrated.) Hmm, sounds resonable. Plans? -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.0, & 5.9.x, and 806 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, 11i, AIX 4.3, SuSE 8.2, and Win2k. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ http://archives.develooper.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] send smoke reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], QA: http://qa.perl.org