On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 11:22:59PM -0000, Paul Marquess wrote: > From: Jarkko Hietaniemi [mailto:jhi@iki.fi] > > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:50:16PM +0000, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:13:01PM -0000, Paul Marquess wrote: > > > > > > > > Have we reached the stage where we need to seriously consider > > including > > > > Devel::PPPort in the core (with a parallel existence on CPAN)? > > > > > > I think so. > > > > Fine with me, too. (The name "ppport.h" is also less likely to > > cause conflicts, me like.) > > How does this sound for a plan? > > 1. Devel::PPPort > > Port Devel::PPPort into the core. The biggest change needed here is to > get > Devel::PPPort to install itself, and for it to provide an interface to > allow h2xs to get a ppport.h file. > > 2. h2xs > > Get h2xs to add an "#include ppport.h" in the .xs file and use > Devel::PPPort to generate the ppport.h file. > > 3. Bells & Whistles > > h2xs could write a section in Makefile.PL to (optionally) check if > Devel::PPPort is installed. If it is installed and it is newer than the > version than was used to create the ppport.h file included with the > module > it is building, it could automatically upgrade the ppport.h file. > > Devel::PPPort could be given the intelligence to check for newer > versions > of itself on CPAN. The plan sounds okay to me. The Bells and Whistles section sounds a little bit ambitious, though. > I don't mind doing 1 & 2 above, at least, but I'd prefer to have Kenneth's > approval to modify his module first. Does anyone know if he is still active > in the Perl world? Haven't heard/seen anything for a long long long time. Last I heard he was working for Palm, but that was also long ... you get the idea. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack CohenThread Previous | Thread Next