Carl Friedberg wrote:
Hi Peter and John,
I have not had a look at the logicals piece in quite a
while. I ran into a design issue, because I felt that
the interface needed to be changed, and I got stuck
worrying about how to make the change so it wouldn't
break earlier users...
Unfortunately, I probably can't get back to this for
another month or two. I would like to return to this,
as well as an assortment of VMS:: modules. I use them,
and I know what is needed for several improvements,
and updates to the take advantage of current versions
of perl and VMS.
I may need a logical name extension in order to integrate Perl with GNV
bash.
The concept of mapping $ENV{} hashes to logical names by default will
cause problems with the bash shell, which only uses the C Environment
tables. And it is possible that I may have to disable accessing logical
names through the $ENV() completely when Perl is running with bash as
the parent.
So if you can give me download location for what you have, I can
possibly look at completing it if it turns out I need to expose it.
I can also look up the corporate FTP drop box if a push is easier for
you. My local ISP will not let me set up an FTP server.
The ripple effect is that it may be that to support the GNV bash, the
use of $ENV{} for what VMS only uses as logical names may need to be
changed in other modules to use a logical name module.
For the UNIX folks that do not know what logical names are, they behave
like a symbolic link that is always present in your default directory,
and the DCL shell can read/set them similar to how the bash shell can
use a script to read/set the contents of a symbolic link.
I also have on my plate the vmsperl website maintenance,
and you all know I've dropped that. Hopefully, I will
get back to all of this before the end of November.
Finally, I do hope to set up vmsperl.com as a useful
resource. Good intentions and all that.
Yes, I understand. My perl todo list does not seem to be getting
shorter in spite of what I have succeeded in getting in.
Getting the Filespec related changes in will be the biggest chunk.
-John
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