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From:
Nuno 'smash' Carvalho
Date:
December 20, 2010 16:14
Subject:
Re: Task for new porter (Re: perldelta naming)
Message ID:
AANLkTimCngcCx1_sNm9ABmGBu+=CYj42zOLmVBuP368W@mail.gmail.com
Greetings,

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Jesse Vincent <jesse@fsck.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 08:05:15AM -0500, David Golden wrote:
>> >> * At most one .
>> >> * No more than 39 characters before the dot, and 39 after
>> >> * No distinctions solely on case
>> >> * No filenames starting with -
>> >
>> > Also don't use any of these names (regardless of case) before the dot:
>> >
>> >  CON, PRN, AUX, NUL,
>> >  COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9,
>> >  LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9
>>
>> Sounds like we a t/porting/filenames.t would be a useful double check
>> on these (and anything else)
>
> Indeed. I'd love a patch from an interested porter that massages
> Porting/check83.pl into t/porting/filenames.t
>
> If you, dear reader, don't already have your name in AUTHORS, this would
> be a great smallish task that would help Perl's portability and doesn't
> require any C 'fu.
>
> If you think you'd like to take a shot at this, please send a patch :)

 Here is a first attempt to write the filenames.t test file. Some
tests discussed in the list were added, not all I think. Any comments,
suggestions, etc. are welcome. A couple of tests fail because of file
names with more than one . (dot) in the MANIFEST.

> Best,
> Jesse

smash

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