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On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 05:42:47AM +0100, Ricardo Signes wrote: > commit b581a1f73be55ae99bb4ce6f49883b0b717b5142 > Author: Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org> > Date: Tue Feb 21 22:19:56 2012 -0500 > > unixify the --outfile arg to pod2html > > I think we probably need a more systematic regimen of of unixify > calls, but for now, this gets tests passing on Win32. We might not need *any*. [Ignore drive letters for a moment] Win32 API calls and Perl internally accept '/' as a path separator. VMS Perl accepts Unix pathnames internally. The big reason for passing everything through File::Spec is to make native paths for native tools. But: Web browsers have to accept '/' pathnames in URLs. I believe (*please* check) that they have to accept '/' pathnames in file URLs. And IIRC drive letters end up munged anyway, as file:///C|/path/goes/here So, it's quite possible that the correct regimen is *zero*. All pathnames, all the time, using '/', because there are *no* native tools involved. If so, that would simplify things *a lot*. Nicholas ClarkThread Next