-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Igor Peshansky wrote: > As Reini rather forcefully alluded to, using ':' in filenames is > non-portable. You really should complain upstream about using that > character in their filenames. The standard Perl convention is to replace > '::' by '_', anyway.
This file is just a readme containing a security advisory, and doesn't get handled by the /::/_/ magic. > However, another workaround is > > mount -u -o managed `cygpath -m /home/$USER/.cpan` /home/$USER/.cpan > > This will set up .cpan as a managed mount, which supports all kinds of > special characters in filenames. Don't expect Windows programs to > understand them, though. And you might have trouble actually installing > the package (if it uses those characters in installed files). Since this readme doesn't get installed, this is not a problem. Alternatively, build this module with cygport and the attached .cygport file. Yaakov -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEz7yUpiWmPGlmQSMRAlBnAKDgHgaiktK5svgLCjNtP8z0bXL6zwCfcGCc ZU/OrxZYX+dhiBR2XIwi2i0= =YcvQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
CPAN_AUTHOR=lds inherit perl USE_MANAGED_MOUNT=1 DOCS+=" README.compatibility"
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