Re: Not-completely-portable modules

>>>>> "Nathan" == Nathan Torkington <[email protected]> writes:
    Nathan> My feeling on it is that such modules should work in a
    Nathan> *lot* of places.  I don't feel like including four billion
    Nathan> Win32::* modules on the grounds that they're useful and
    Nathan> platform-specific is okay.

AOL.  I think a reasonable litmus test is the ability of module to
function on x% of the total number (n) of platforms perl supports,
where n is 'ls hints | wc -l' plus whatever custom platform builds
exist eg, VMS, OE/MVS etc.

Obviously x% should be greater than 1/n. :)

Beyond that I think perl-{platform}-sdk is the answer.

-- 
Stephen

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