On Jun 10, 2009, at 7:29 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
Thomas Pfau wrote:
John E. Malmberg wrote:
We really need to get some sort of logical name support that we can
count on being bundled with Perl on VMS.
My VMS::Logical module appears to work. I don't think I ever
uploaded it
to CPAN but I could do that.
http://axp1.nbpfaus.net/~pfau/perl/VMS-LOGICAL-0_3.ZIP
That would be great. If that poses any problem for you I'd be happy
to do it with your permission.
That is a start, but we need it as part of the base Perl
distribution on VMS.
There is considerable interest currently in removing extensions from
the core and reluctance to add them. This derives from somewhat of a
binge in adding new extensions in recent years that add to the
maintenance burden of the core developers at a time when the core
developers have become spread rather thin. The basic criteria now are
that to be in core an extension should be essential for building Perl
and/or installing other extensions. Arguably VMS::Feature and
VMS::Logical could meet these criteria since they expose aspects of
the environment that are of interest when building things. But as far
as anyone who would have any say in incorporating them is concerned,
they don't exist because they are not on CPAN. Get them on CPAN and
other possibilities arise, though probably not before Perl 5.12.0.
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