RE: 0.2808_04 will not install in Strawberry Perl 5.10.0.2...

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Ken Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Curtis Jewell
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  DB<7> p $cmd
> > 'C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe' -MConfig=myconfig -e print -e myconfig
> >
> > (At this point, the first parameter needs to be double-quoted, not
> > single quoted, and that's when we hit this error.)
> 
> I think the correct fix for this would be to write a _quote_args()
> method in Module/Build/Platform/Windows.pm .  It's trying to use Unix
> shell semantics.  In this case, it shouldn't need to use any quotes at
> all, since backslashes are fine in the Windows shell.

I suspect the quoting is there in case the path contains some whitespace,
e.g. as "C:\Program Files\Perl\bin\perl.exe", which would need the quotes.

Cheers,
-Jan