John E. Malmberg wrote:
> Would there be an issue if File::Spec::VMS get the changes before MM_VMS?

Dunno, what you're doing is all gibberish to me so far.  I haven't touched
MM_VMS in a while.  December 2007 to be exact and Sept 2006 before that.

Though this is curious...


> Putting a print STDERR statement shows that is not the case, that the
> methods of those names contained in File::Spec::VMS are used unless they
> are called by MM_VMS. 

The internal calls to eliminate_macros() and fixpath() should simply be
removed from File::Spec::VMS.  They're only used to deal with make macros, its
a very MakeMaker specific thing.

They were left in place so that new versions of File::Spec would continue to
work with older (pre 6.11 which is from perl 5.8.0 and older) versions of
MakeMaker.  That was five and a half years ago.  It's safe to remove them.


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