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 ?? > 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. (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.)