From:	Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id:	<200301181355.h0IDteQ21090@brother.ludd.luth.se>
Subject:	Re: perl 5.8.0 from w2k test site problems
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Sat, 18 Jan 2003 14:55:40 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To:	<9003-Sat18Jan2003154747+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Jan 18, 2003 03:47:47 PM
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According to Eli Zaretskii:
> > From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> > A scheme like converting Foo::Bar.3 to Foo__Bar.3 might not work very well,
> > because some module prefix may be > 8 characters. The resulting mappings would
> > not be unique for a module prefix with lots of submodules. (My terminology is
> > probably wrong here.) So VitalModule::Bar and VitalModule::Baz would have
> > conflicting man page file names. We could do something similar to module names
> > and put them in subdirectories, e.g. VitalModule::Bar.3 -> VitalModule/Bar.3,
> > but this will require special support in our man.
> 
> How about VitalModule::Bar.3 -> VitalModuleBar.3?

And VitalModule::Baz.3 -> VitalModuleBaz.3. 

With 8.3 limits in effect?


Right,

						MartinS

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