Re: Not-completely-portable modules

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:00:08 -0400, Adam Turoff <[email protected]>
wrote:

>> 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.
>
>Including 2**32 Win32::* modules would be useful if they were in the
>perl-win32-sdk, not the (core) perl-sdk.  
>
>Iff there is time/need/desire to address a series of mythical 
>perl-foo-sdks,  that would be the forum to discuss things like 
>Win32 (etc.) modules.

There is nothing mythical about the perl-win32-sdk (except that it is
hidden under the libwin32 moniker):

    http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=dist&query=libwin32

-Jan

PS: And no, I don't think these Win32::* modules should be included in the
perl-sdk; they are available (in binary form too) in the libwin32-* files
and are also already preinstalled in the ActivePerl binary distribution.