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Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/
From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
January 29, 2001 07:09
Subject:
Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/
Message ID:
20010129090442.H14353@chaos.wustl.edu
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:07:10PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> Jarkko Hietaniemi writes:
> > > True, but you can't do any of all that without knowing the platform
> > > accurately (nontrivial and requires core mod or XS). Once that's
> > > done, the rest is just a matter of extending File::Spec
> > > (trivial and pure Perl).
> >
> > Trivial? *cough* *snigger*
>
> If it was trivial, Configure wouldn't need to exist--we could just use
> hints files. Lots of hints files. One for each configuration, in
> fact. Hey Jarkko, I have an idea ... :-)
Someone please make the evil man go away...
> Nat
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