Re: Not-completely-portable modules

[email protected] (Elaine -HFB- Ashton) Tue, 26 Oct 1999 14:12:03 -0500
Newsgroups perl.sdk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nathan Torkington [[email protected]] quoth:
*>
*>My feeling on it is that such modules should work in a *lot* of
*>places.  I don't feel like including four billion Win32::* modules
*>on the grounds that they're useful and platform-specific is okay.

I would tend to agree. There is no reason why someone with an Alpha should
have to install an SDK with Solaris::* modules, etc. Why not keep the base
as generic as possible? 

e.