On Nov 24, 2007 8:28 AM, Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 19, 2007, at 8:54 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote: > > > The Cwd.pm in blead is different than CPAN right now for VMS, > > Actually I just compared, and it looks like the 3.25_01 release of > PathTools never got integrated into blead. Is that a desirable thing > to do? From my perspective it would be (it's more stable and has > more consistent results across platforms), but I'm not sure what the > status of the code freeze is. > > We could call it 3.26 if desired. > > > > where the CPAN copy will return a valid filename that is not really > > the primary absolute path as is done on Unix. The existing Cwd.pm > > VMS code in blead has a bug where it assumes that the current > > working directory is correct for the contents of the symbolic link. > > > > The patches (in modified form) have been committed to http:// > svn.perl.org/modules/PathTools/trunk , want to take a look and make > sure everything looks okay?
I'll let John check on whether his Cwd change look good, but I see two VMS -related patches to PathTools in blead that are not in your svn repository: http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/31431 http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/31432 The first one stops splitdir from returning an empty first directory when passed a relative path; this was different from what other platforms do. On a related note, Ben Morrow recently pointed out that catdir on VMS does not take an empty first directory as a request for an absolute path, which is apparently what happens on other platforms -- no patch for that yet. The second patch above is just a test skippage because of a construct we don't do on VMS.
