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> On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 06:54 AM, Orton, Yves wrote:
> >
> > The best dictionary of known $^O values that I know of is in
> > File::Spec.
>
> Actually, I think a better dictionary is in Module::Build, in the
> top-level module.
Ok, fair enough.
> File::Spec already has a path() method that returns a list of path
> elements. Looking at the code I inherited though, it doesn't
> look very robust. I can patch for better use of $Config{path_sep}.
Ok, the only beef I have with that sub (which is news to me :-) is that it
is intended to work on $ENV{PATH} but really we need a method that can split
appropriately any path on a given platform.
Maybe make it should default to $ENV{PATH} if passed no argument and
otherwise split the string it is passed?
> I don't think it's a good idea to have a pathsep() method,
> for reasons
> similar to the ones for not having a dirsep() method ('/', '\', ':',
> etc.). Much better to return the data structure itself.
Fair enough.
Yves