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On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 17:59:15 EST, Barrie Slaymaker wrote:
>Mark Lofdahl wrote:
>>
>> As I've been working with File::Spec::Win32, I've noticed a couple problems:
>>
>
>Thanks for the bug report, I'll look in to them. You show 5.005_03, but
>the bugs you're reporting are in code not in that version. Is this
>an ActiveState Build 521 issue, or are you (I hope) using development
>version?
Build 520 and later have the File::Spec from 5.005_5x (needed, IIRC, for
the newer Pod::Html from 5.005_5x that was critical for generating
well-formed HTML).
>> 2. canonpath does not support the optional $reduce_ricochet parameter.
>
>The canonpath() family support for $reduce_ricochet should not yet be
>in any stable version of perl, and there was some discussion of having
>two entry points instead, with mincanonpath() doing s{name/../?}{}
>reductions after calling canonpath().
>
>Any votes from the p5p crew on this issue?
Two entry points works for me.
>Also, should I patch abs2rel() and rel2abs() to have a calling convention
>(parameter order) more similar to catdir() and catfile()?
What's I see in there looks fine.
Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com
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