On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 05:41:55PM -0400, John Malmberg wrote:
> >Long story short: MM_VMS' versions are the real ones. File::Spec's are
> >vestigal.
>
> Unfortunately my testing shows that the File::Spec's ones are used all
> the time, unless they are called by MakeMaker which overrides them, and
> they do make changes to the pathnames that they are processing that
> catdir() and catfile() seem to depend on.
They have little or no effect outside of MakeMaker because they need a
MakeMaker object to act on. For example, the while loop in
eliminate_macros() never does anything because there's never anything in
$self. $self->{$2} can never be true.
fixpath() may have some effect when called as a class method. I've never
fully understood what it does, nor do I really want to.
> And up to now, I have not needed to know the difference between a class
> and an object in Perl.
Get thee to "Object Oriented Perl" by Damian Conway.
http://www.manning.com/books/conway
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