I don't quite understand the problem.

From the OP: Internally, I use / as a separator whenever possible. For path strings I get from the "outside", I use File::Spec to be OS independent.

Do any paths come from somewhere else, that you can't keep track of and normalize? My point is that Path::Class, just as File::Spec which it uses internally, expects Unix style paths when run on Unix, and Windows style paths when run on Windows, unless you tell it otherwise. So for new never-before-seen paths you do 

my $path = dir($from_outside)->as_foreign('Unix');

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and once they're internal, you just do 
my $path = foreign_dir('Unix', $internal);

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Is this unapplicable to your problem?

lodin

In reply to Re^3: CPAN Module for mixing Unix/Windows path by lodin
in thread CPAN Module for mixing Unix/Windows path by rovf

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