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Re: Refactoring OS type mapping using Perl::OSType and bringing it into core.

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David Golden
Date:
May 20, 2010 16:00
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Re: Refactoring OS type mapping using Perl::OSType and bringing it into core.
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On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> wrote:
> Everything else that the os_type() stuff
> does is just remapping names to other names.

In theory, I agree.  In practice, things already use those mappings.
And not always consistently, which is why some CPAN modules have
*::Windows and others have *::Win32, neither of which is MSWin32.

David

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