RE: progress report on piping on VMS

[Dan Sugalski]

At 10:36 AM 3/13/00 -0500, Jordan Henderson wrote:
>The fullfillment of this goal would mean that almost all of the CPAN
>riches would be available to VMS users.  As it stands now, we often see
>posted complaints about not getting some important module to work or
>boasts that they _have_ been able to get some particularly valuable
>module _to_ work under VMS.

That's not a 100% obtainable goal, unfortunately. It's the modules with XS 
code that get in the way of this--they often use platform-specific bits, or 
override pieces of the generated makefile in VMS-incompatible ways. :(



                                        Dan

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