Re: [MacPerl-Porters] File::Spec and MakeMaker discussions over on perl5.porters

In article <[email protected]>,
 [email protected] (Scott R. Godin) wrote:

> wow.. lots of patches involved here.. seems like ExtUtils::MakeMaker and 
> ExtUtils::Install were using 'homebrewed' rather than File::Spec 
> versions of things like catdir and whatnot, and even CPAN.pm itself is 
> affected by this change. 

ExtUtils::Instal and ExtUtils::MakeMaker long predate File::Spec.  The 
APIs are subtly different.  To upgrade them is, therefore, painful.


> Will we be seeing these trickling down into  5.6.x or is this strictly 
> limted to bleadperl? 

Not unless there's a specific reason to do so, no.


> (How are those File::Spec updates going, BTW? :)

There haven't been any changes to File::Spec for Mac OS in some time.

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