Re: How to add methods to Filespec.pm on VMS?

2005-09-27 Thread John E. Malmberg
Michael G Schwern wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:01:42PM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: Well, I thought that it would be simpler than it has turned out to be, and obviously I am missing a concept or two somewhere. Filespec.pm uses AutoLoader, mostly to prevent the Perl versions from ever

Re: Proposed vmsish changes.

2005-09-27 Thread Peter Prymmer
John E. Malmberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/26/2005 02:45:51 PM: I have not notice any modules for manipulating logical names, and have also noticed that while the $ENV{} allows this, the $ENV{} features that are documented on VMS will make changes in the logical name tables that would be

Pls. Review patch@25626 - VMS::Filespec update.

2005-09-27 Thread John E. Malmberg
CPAN is showing Nicholas Clark as the maintainer of VMS::Filespec, and the comments are showing Charles Baily as the maintainer. This adds the methods needed for other Core modules to properly interpret VMS file specifications. Also included is an update to the documentation for the existing

Re: Proposed vmsish changes.

2005-09-27 Thread John E. Malmberg
Carl Friedberg wrote: Hi Peter and John, I have not had a look at the logicals piece in quite a while. I ran into a design issue, because I felt that the interface needed to be changed, and I got stuck worrying about how to make the change so it wouldn't break earlier users... Unfortunately, I