"Craig A. Berry" <craigbe...@mac.com> wrote on 09/02/2009 08:35:05 PM:
> On Sep 2, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > Would it be possible to move vms/ext/DCLsym to ext/VMS-DCLsym, and > > vms/ext/Stdio to ext/VMS-Stdio, with conditional (not) building > > analogous > > to how ext/Win32* are only built on Windows? > > > > I think that would make my plans for refactoring make_ext.pl simpler. > > (to allow moving dual-life modules modules involved with > > Makefile.PLs into > > ext too). Right now ext/$foo and vms/ext/$bar are at different depths. > > > That should be fine, and if for some reason it isn't, we'll find out > pretty quickly and deal with it. > > VMS::Filespec is more of a special case because it's used during the > build and has hand-rolled XS code hard-wired in vms/vms.c, but because > of that it also doesn't need to go through xsubpp or other extension- > building steps and shouldn't have any need for special treatment in > make_ext.pl. There may be some changes needed for configure.com and the descrip.mms template file. If a test tgz is released I may have some time to take a look too. Peter Prymmer
