From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jun 7 13:57:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [216.187.105.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD39A37B40A for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 13:56:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF0B3F3A; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 16:58:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Anton Berezin Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 16:56:31 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: perl module : File-PathConvert Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <20020607192617.GA94077@heechee.tobez.org> References: <200202082218.g18MIgi55909@lists.unixathome.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Message-Id: <20020607205800.6EF0B3F3A@bast.unixathome.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 7 Jun 2002 at 21:26, Anton Berezin wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 05:18:31PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > > I was looking to see if this has been added to the ports tree: > > > > http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=File-PathConvert > > http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RB/RBS/File-PathConvert-0.85.tar.gz > > > > So I tried make search key=File::PathConvert and a few other variations. > > > > 1 - has anyone seen this in the ports tree? > > 2 - anyone [with more skill and time than I] want to port it? > > A bit late answer, :-) but: but an answer nonetheless! > An excerpt from File-PathConvert-0.9/Makefile.PL: > > *** THIS MODULE (File::PathConvert) IS DEPRECATED. **** > > There are several known bugs, and it is not being actively > maintained since all functionality is now available in > modules (Cwd.pm and File::Spec) bundled in every Perl > distribution of recent vintage. This version is provided to > fix a few bugs and to get the word out about the > deprecation. > > Please use Cwd::abs_path() instead of > File::PathConvert::realpath() and File::Spec methods instead > of all other path manipulation functions in this module. > > If you use setfstype, you probably want to access a File::Spec::Foo > module for the appropriate operating system. > > There is also a version of File::Spec on CPAN for backwards > compatability. > > So I gather you are not going to find a volunteer. No, I wasn't. But I've added a PR to FreshPorts regarding this issue. Is File::Spec and Cwd in the ports tree? I ask because that's what I'll be going to. cheers -- Dan Langille To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message