On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 12:43:37PM -0400, Andrew M. Langmead wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 12:49:52PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
> > I think the Mac:: category could be read as 'Macish'.
> >
> > Same goes for all the platform specific categories. Spawning Macish::,
> > Win32ish::, VMSish::, Solarisish:: categories would not be good!
> >
> > Certainly if I wanted to read a Mac file I'd look in the Mac category.
>
> How would one determine if Win32::Registry uses the Win32 API to query
> the registry database or if it can read .reg files directly and
> reimplements registry API? There are over 100 Win32 modules on CPAN,
> all of them require the underlying Win32 API and will not work
> otherwise. Why would one assume that some of them might be useful on
> the other platforms (and practically useless on win32.)
I'd read the docs... But I'd read the docs of Win32* modules first :)
Tim.
