Re: Not-completely-portable modules

At 12:43 26/10/1999 -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
>There seems to be a concensus that it's ok to have "platform-specific"
>modules (i.e., ones that don't work everywhere).
>
>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.
>
>Does that seem like a reasonable statement of the unspoken sentiment?

I agree. Maybe we should also add a document describing the platforms where
the modules are known to work, a listing from cpan-testers for instance.


.Robin
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