XML::Twig News: VMS Patch
Peter (Stig) Edwards sent me a patch to fix all the build problems on VMS.
I integrated the changes, which fell in a few categories:
- VMS supports only 1 dot per file name, so no more t/test_3.22.t,
- tools like cat, echo and even... perl are not necessarily available, so I had to replace them, either with the VMS version, or by finding the right version of perl and using it,
- VMS quirks, like LWP::Simple not forking.
I don't have a VMS machine here, so of course I could not test the changes, but it looks like they should be OK.
The whole discussion is on RT.
BTW, on the subject of patches: I rarely apply them as is. Don't take it personally. First, patches are often on Twig.pm, which is generated from Twig_pm.slow, so I can't apply them directly. Then, surprisingly enough, I like to know what's in a patch before applying it, so I review them carefully, and what best way to review them than to rewrite them. Then I often find better ways, or at least ways that are more consistent with the existing module, to make the change, or more general. But I appreciate getting them anyway.
