Re: Mac OS alias from Perl

On Dec 8, 2007, at 7:06 PM, Celeste Suliin Burris <[email protected] 
 > wrote:

> Use a symbolic link instead.  Perl handles those natively, and they  
> can be
> accessed from the command line. The Finder just treats them the same  
> as
> aliases.
>>
>>

Not quite. I forget the details at the moment, but Finder aliases are  
kind of like "firm links": while hardlinks point to inodes, and  
softlinks point to file pathnames, aliases point to the logical file  
in a more robust way than symlinks. For example, if the reverent file  
moves, symlinks break, but aliases shouldn't.

If you really want aliases, I think the CPAN modules of Dan Kogai and  
Chris Nandor are the place to start. I forget who wrote what, but  
modules like (I think) MacOS::File and Mac::Glue can either make the  
right calls directly, or leverage Applescript / OSAscript to do this  
for you.

Or if symlinks/softlinks are enough, just use the traditional Perl /  
Unix methods to make those.


-- 
Chris Devers