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From:
Graham Barr
Date:
August 13, 2001 15:24
Subject:
Re: Perl 6 modules plan
Message ID:
20010813104527.O7667@pobox.com
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 07:20:11PM -0400, schwern@pobox.com wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 02:16:49PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > One silliness is that the implementation "style" of the module
> > seems to creep to the naming:
> >
> > (1) Foo vs Foo_XS
>
> Well then, how do you name it? For example, Text::CSV. There's a
> pure perl implementation and an XS implementation. If they're both in
> the same tarball, it should probably be Text::CVS::Perl and
> Text::CVS::XS with Text::CSV acting as a little wrapper to choose
> which one. Simple enough.
>
Why do they need to be named differently ? Only one will be installed.
I did this with the Scalar-List-Utils distribution. It contained both
a perl implementation and an XS implementation. But decided which to
install at build time.
Graham.
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