At 7:07 AM -0500 1/31/05, John E. Malmberg wrote: >I notice that a lot of the tests here are on Perl 5.8.4, yet CPAN shows that >the current version of Perl is 5.8.6.
5.8.6 is current on all platforms. It has a couple of MakeMaker test failures on VMS that are unrelated to MakeMaker itself. Immediately upgrading to the latest version of PathTools (which includes File::Spec and Cwd) from CPAN would correct the root causes of those failures. >I am looking at building a version that supports the upcoming symlink support >in OpenVMS, and wanted to know which base level of Perl I should start with. New development should be done against the 5.9.x development stream known as bleadperl. The best way to get a copy is via rsync: $ rsync -avz --delete ftp.linux.activestate.com::perl-current perl This can be done on Linux, Mac OS X, under Cygwin on Windows, among other unixy environments, and the resulting directory tree zipped up and moved to VMS. Unless of course you've got your VMS port of rsync working (which I would be eager to know about). >Also which baselevel has the changes that I submitted for handling UNIX file >specifications based on the DECC$ feature logicals? Some future version. We are still hampered by the fact that certain parts of the Perl core written in Perl need to be modified to accommodate the things the CRTL can do. If we don't develop and put in these changes simultaneously with your changes, basic functionality will break. For example, if someone has DECC$EFS_CASE_PRESERVE enabled and the C parts of Perl honor it but we have not yet modified MakeMaker to handle it, Perl won't even be able to build itself. So I apologize for how long this has taken. I've been short on volunteer time that comes in chunks bigger than half an hour, but I have not forgotten your changes. I was just thinking over the weekend that we need to move forward with this somehow, and we need also to look into supporting or using other v8.2 CRTL enhancements, such as stream-based pipes. Thanks for exploring symlink support. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
