Re: MM_VMS and File::Spec::VMS.pm intertanglement.

John E. Malmberg wrote:
> The comments for eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS
> imply that they are only used in older versions of Make Maker that does
> not contain them.
> 
> Putting a print STDERR statement shows that is not the case, that the
> methods of those names contained in File::Spec::VMS are used unless they
> are called by MM_VMS.
> 
> I am now trying to update File::Spec to handle VMS EFS character
> specifications and GNV (GNU is not VMS) Unix compatibilty mode, so I
> will need to first update File::Spec::VMS, and then MM_VMS later.
> 
> In the EFS (Extended character set) mode, in addition to handling the
> extended character set, the routines will return Unix syntax for Unix
> input and VMS syntax for VMS input.
> 
> For cases where there is no input, or the input does not indicate the
> output format, then the output will be in VMS syntax unless the UNIX
> compatibilty mode is also on.  If that mode is on, then ambigous output
> will be in Unix syntax.
> 
> This appears to match the expectation of most of the Perl scripts that I
> have worked on getting ported to VMS.

Do you need anything, or was that just an FYI/RFC?


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