in reply to Re: Writing portable code
in thread Writing portable code

...simple distribution of the script if you don't build full blown packages. Only a perl script.pl is needed when the script uses only core functionality. That is simple and lightweight. Am I wrong?

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McA

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Re^3: Writing portable code
by rovf (Priest) on Mar 08, 2013 at 09:56 UTC
    This *could* be a reason in general, but is not so important in my particular case.

    If the "platform dependent" subs would form a logical unit, which deserves being factored out to a module, this is what I would do.

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    Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>