On Jun 10, 2009, at 10:09 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
Craig A. Berry wrote:
Get them on CPAN and other possibilities arise, though probably not
before Perl 5.12.0.
If we can get them into CPAN, would it be acceptable to make them a
requirement for other CPAN modules to use them just on the VMS
platform?
No, I don't think you can require anybody else to use your module in
theirs. You can of course suggest it.
The point of getting something onto CPAN is that it provides a
baseline of open source credibility. People can see what's there,
file bug reports against it, report test results, etc. Plus I think
the main value of having VMS::Logical and VMS::Feature on CPAN is that
people can find and use them because they'll be in the most common
place to look for such things. I'm not entirely convinced we need
them in the core. What we mainly need for the core is a way to
distinguish concealed device names from similar-looking logical names.
We may be able to do that with tweaks to VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand or
something in the neighborhooed.
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