Re: [MacPerl-Porters] A new catdir() for review/discussion

At 0:15 Uhr -0400 09.10.2001, Chris Nandor wrote:
>At 18:45 +0200 2001.09.30, Thomas Wegner wrote:
>>In theory, this sounds clear. But when it gets to coding, the decision has to
>>be made what happens with calls like
>>
>>    catdir('', '::')             or
>>    catdir('', ':a','b:')
>>
>>Obviously, the resulting path can't simply be made absolute, especially in the
>>first example. Hence, I'd suggest, that an empty string when passed as
>>the first argument is treated as File::Spec->rootdir, which on Unix is
>>"/", and on Mac OS is the startup volume. This is the most portable way
>>for solving this absolute path problem I can think of. Comments welcome.
>
>Sounds good to me.
>
>I assume a patch here would also include a new catfile() if necessary (that
>is, it is just implemented mostly via catdir() anyway).

Of course (implement a new catdir() and get a new catfile() for free :).

>It would also be nice if you could supply a doc patch for lib/File/Spec.pm,
>but don't worry about it if you can't or don't want to.  :-)
>

Yep, all inclusive. Just give me some time. I'm curious which modules and tests will explode afterwards; filefind-taint.t and filefind.t are my hottest candidates so far ;-).

Thanks for looking into it.

Best regards,

--Thomas


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