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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
August 11, 2009 15:18
Subject:
Re: RE: 5.10.1-RC1 Test::Harness ruins @INC
Message ID:
20090811221833.GZ4204@iabyn.com
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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