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

At 23:00 Uhr -0500 20.11.2001, Scott R. Godin wrote:

>> > (How are those File::Spec updates going, BTW? :)
>> 
>> There haven't been any changes to File::Spec for Mac OS in some time.
>
>I thought I recalled some chatter on this or a related list with regards 
>to changes in File::Spec that someone was working on to 'normalize' the 
>expected results... Perhaps not directly related to the MacOS but 
>certainly to improve cross-platform compatibility.
>

You are probably talking about File::Spec->cat{dir, file}(), which in fact have changed on Mac OS (a month or so ago). They now return relative paths by default, like on all other OSs. If you have MacPerl 5.6.1b1, you should have the new File::Spec::Mac. Take a look at the docs. (And this in fact proves, that we are not only chatting, but get things ready, sometimes ;-).


Best regards,

--Thomas


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