Re: extensions in vms/ext

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.
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