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On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 8:26 PM, James E Keenan <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by James E Keenan > # Please include the string: [perl #122420] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122420 > > > > [Since ExtUtils-Manifest is now primarily maintained by Perl 5 Porters, I am moving this ticket here from https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2746. -- jkeenan] > > ##### > http://archive.develooper.com/makemaker@perl.org/msg01210.html > > maniread() needs to deal better with the non-case preserving nature of VMS. > > It currently does this clumsily by downcasing the filenames. This is lossy. Also, VMS isn't always non-case preserving. > > Instead, have maniread() return a tied case-insensitive hash on VMS. > ##### > > This issue *may* have been addressed by subsequent work on the VMS-specific parts of ExtUtils::Manifest. Craig (or anyone with VMS chops), can you comment? A quick glance at Manifest.pm suggests that quite a bit of the VMS-specific hacks should just be ripped out. No promises about when I'll get to it, though.Thread Previous