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Re: Question for perl gurus: what creates /bin/{HEAD|GET|POST}?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:36:04 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Question for perl gurus: what creates /bin/{HEAD|GET|POST}?
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> > > The LWP module isn't part of the Cygwin perl distribution. If you
> > > install LWP you are asked if you want to install these shortcuts
> > > This was included in the LWP setup because of the problems with Cygwin
> > > and other case insensitive platforms.
> >
> > Hmm, I don't believe I was asked anything - everything was installed
> > automatically... I can re-check this.
>
> I installed LWP via the CPAN shell yesterday - no questions were asked, the make
> install errored out, with head and HEAD being the problem. Another option would
> be to try and convince LWP to make them HEAD.pl, GET.pl, POST.pl instead.
>
> Max.
Thanks for confirming this. Yes, a ".pl" suffix would certainly be a
better idea than the "LWP-" prefix... I'll try to compose a reasonable
message to the LWP maintainers.
Igor
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