Hello syphilis,

no clues by me, only other doubts..

In the very first place I dont understand why a module aimed to help with path and filenames plays so dirty on testing, faking a Unix mode

Second, as I dont have any strawberry available newer than 5.32 I played a bit with the t/01-basic.t and I discovered it fails in the same way even with this modified part:

use Config;
BEGIN {
  #$^O = 'Unix'; # Test in Unix mode
   $Config{'osname'} = 'Unix';
   warn "DEBUG: config: ",$Config{'osname'}," -- \$^O: $^O\n";
}

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So $Config{'osname'} and $^O are indipendent and the above code is only influenced by $^O.

In perlvar I read: $^O .. The value is identical to $Config{'osname'}. They are identical but not bound.

Infact the module you are talking about rely on the core module File::Spec (..yes, boring to use but works very well) and it simply inspect $^O as you can see. And yes you can also try $^O = ''; to fake the Unix mode.

With my poor understanding I can find nothing in perldelta about osname nor about $^O

As last doubt I have noting at Entity.pm line 76. ..merely a blank line after the sub resolve ending.

L*

There are no rules, there are no thumbs..
Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.

In reply to Re: Is it ever legitimate to override $^O ? by Discipulus
in thread Is it ever legitimate to override $^O ? by syphilis

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