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Date:      Fri, 7 Jun 2002 16:56:31 -0400
From:      "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
To:        Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: perl module : File-PathConvert
Message-ID:  <20020607205800.6EF0B3F3A@bast.unixathome.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020607192617.GA94077@heechee.tobez.org>
References:  <200202082218.g18MIgi55909@lists.unixathome.org>

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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


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