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Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 12:16:17 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: perl 5.8.0 from w2k test site problems
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 01:03:06 +0000
> > From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> >
> > I thought installing skipped copying of the man pages on DOS systems? At
> > least, that's what I remember from Perl 5.6.1. I don't remember having to
> > do anything special - it's something that is disabled by default for the
> > dos-djgpp target, I believe.
> 
> I think it's unfortunate that part of docs is not installed in the
> DJGPP port.

I've thought a little bit about this.

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.

The other alternative I thought of was to give up on man and fix the HTML
pages, which may be easier to fix and not require support in man. But that's
probably not very useful for people using plain ol' DOS.

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]