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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 01:41:57AM -0700, Jan Dubois wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Sisyphus wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jan Dubois" <jand@activestate.com>
> >
> > > Could you try the attached patch to see if it normalizes the Perl behavior
> > > regarding $^X and @INC again?
> [...]
> > > + GetLongPathNameW(modulename, modulename, sizeof(modulename)/sizeof(WCHAR));
> [...]
> > No good, I'm afraid.
>
> Sorry, my bad. Please replace all 3 occurances of "modulename" above with "fullname".
>
> [...]
>
> > I've just been told (on mingw-users list) that for this to work, we need to
> > have:
> >
> > #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500
>
> Ah yes, GetLongPathName() requires Windows 2000 or later, so it needs some
> GetProcAddr() dance instead.
Will this appear as a blead commit that I can can add to 5.10.1?
> Or maybe we should discuss if there is any point
> in trying to pretend that we still support Windows 9X. And if we can drop 9X,
> then I would like to drop NT as well. Nobody is running those systems anymore,
> so I think it should be fine to say that Perl 5.10 is the last version that still
> supports these obsolete versions.
Is that somethinbg that needs to go in the 5.10.1 perldelta?
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