Craig Berry wrote:
>I don't have any objection but I didn't know we needed this. Does it trap >something that has been broken before or are we just protecting ourselves >from the possibility of the routines in question changing out from under us? There were several goals: 1) the regression testing functionality that you mentioned. Note that perl on VMS is supposed to be able to compile under gcc. Does that gcc run time provide perl's getpwuid() with appropriate info? Does that test run OK under all currently supported versions of VMS and DEC/Compaq C RTL's? 2) Help illustrate how the DCL examples from "HELP LEX F$IDENT EXAMP" can be re-written in perl. See e.g.: http://www.openvms.compaq.com:8000/ssb71/9996/9996p028.htm#command_107 3) provide for some test coverage on VMS that the t/op/pwent.t type of test already provides for unix without adding a bunch of C<if ( $^O eq 'VMS' ) {> code to pwent.t. Is that adequate justification? Peter Prymmer
