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
On Wednesday 14 January 2009 11:29:03 Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
2009/1/14 Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il:
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
All:
I like the idea of using SQLite because it's small, runs on most
operating systems and fast. It's also got less memory overhead, which
is certainly a good thing.
However, with respect to using File::ShareDir; the module finds the
directory appropriately, but I'm at a loss as to how to
2009/1/14 Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il:
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
Hi.
2009/1/14 Rafael Garcia-Suarez rgarciasua...@gmail.com:
2009/1/14 Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il:
Obviously, it doesn't work on Windows at that report. My questions are:
1. Can I ever expect it to work on Windows?
Dunno. Does Windows 7 implement symbolic links ? I think that's
2009/1/14 Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il:
What's wrong with using _ instead ?
Well, I'm storing the result of stat somewhere, and then checking for whether
it's a link or not only later. I guess I can also store the return code of -l
and other things I'm interested in.
That's what _ is for
* Rafael Garcia-Suarez rgarciasua...@gmail.com [2009-01-14 17:45]:
That's what _ is for : it stores the result of the last stat or
lstat. (see perldoc -f stat)
Only if you do those extra tests right away. You can’t store it
in an object member field for later inspection and expect that
its
Quoth rgarciasua...@gmail.com (Rafael Garcia-Suarez):
Dunno. Does Windows 7 implement symbolic links ? I think that's
unlikely.
Windows has had symlinks (and hard links) when using NTFS since at least
Win2k, but they aren't much used and there isn't any libc support (also,
Explorer tends to
Quoth jonathan.i...@gmail.com (Jonathan Yu):
All:
I like the idea of using SQLite because it's small, runs on most
operating systems and fast. It's also got less memory overhead, which
is certainly a good thing.
However, with respect to using File::ShareDir; the module finds the
