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On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:50:39PM -0500, schwern@pobox.com wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:01:31PM -0300, Branden wrote: > > > Loading a Perl module from a filehandle might > > > screw with <DATA>. > > > > As resource files can be attached to the archive, I think not allowing > > __DATA__ wouldn't be such a big restriction. I don't know if we can find > > other workarounds. > > This kills SelfLoader and unsplit AutoLoader modules and similar > schemes. AutoLoader isn't so much a problem, since we can just run > AutoSplit over it. SelfLoader will be tricky. I found (no surprise with hindsight) that doing zips with source filters screwed <DATA> (for want of a better term) Doing them with sfio made <DATA> work just fine. You got <DATA> uncompressed as you read it. PerlIO will work the same way It's only going to screw modules that expect to be able to seek <DATA> I've not yet met any of them Autoloader works no problem once all the .al files are in a zip (it uses require) s/zip/something else/g to generalise Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next