Re: VMS and Unix pathnames

2009-08-25 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:48:17PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: But the bottom line is, get the t/TEST change into blead -- it doesn't significantly change the number of minor mysteries that need investigating and fixing. Thanks for checking this. It's in blead as of

VMS and Unix pathnames

2009-08-24 Thread Nicholas Clark
Currently the core uses File::Spec inside the test running script, t/TEST, that VMS uses. If I understand perlvms.pod correctly, perl on VMS can understand Unix-like pathnames directly. I'd like to remove File::Spec from t/TEST, as it's something complex run too early in testing. Would the

Re: VMS and Unix pathnames

2009-08-24 Thread John E. Malmberg
Nicholas Clark wrote: Currently the core uses File::Spec inside the test running script, t/TEST, that VMS uses. If I understand perlvms.pod correctly, perl on VMS can understand Unix-like pathnames directly. I'd like to remove File::Spec from t/TEST, as it's something complex run too early in

Re: VMS and Unix pathnames

2009-08-24 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:40:44AM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: Nicholas Clark wrote: Currently the core uses File::Spec inside the test running script, t/TEST, that VMS uses. If I understand perlvms.pod correctly, perl on VMS can understand Unix-like pathnames directly. I'd like to

Re: VMS and Unix pathnames

2009-08-24 Thread Craig A. Berry
On Aug 24, 2009, at 5:12 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote: Currently the core uses File::Spec inside the test running script, t/ TEST, that VMS uses. If I understand perlvms.pod correctly, perl on VMS can understand Unix-like pathnames directly. I'd like to remove File::Spec from t/TEST, as it's

Re: VMS and Unix pathnames

2009-08-24 Thread John E. Malmberg
Nicholas Clark wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:40:44AM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: Nicholas Clark wrote: Currently the core uses File::Spec inside the test running script, t/TEST, that VMS uses. If I understand perlvms.pod correctly, perl on VMS can understand Unix-like pathnames

Re: VMS and Unix pathnames

2009-08-24 Thread Craig A. Berry
On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:58 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote: Nicholas Clark wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:40:44AM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: Nicholas Clark wrote: Currently the core uses File::Spec inside the test running script, t/TEST, that VMS uses. If I understand perlvms.pod