Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact dev-help@perl.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list dev@perl.apache.org Received: (qmail 59297 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2001 10:53:10 -0000 Received: from mailgate.sergeant.org (HELO mail.sergeant.org) (qmailr@194.70.26.133) by h31.sny.collab.net with SMTP; 5 Mar 2001 10:53:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 25239 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2001 10:53:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.7?) (192.168.0.1) by mailgate.sergeant.org with SMTP; 5 Mar 2001 10:53:20 -0000 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 10:50:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Matt Sergeant To: Stas Bekman cc: "modperl-2.0 dev-list" Subject: Re: Inline.pm and the future of XS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Stas Bekman wrote: > Sounds cool, but what are the chances that it'll get into the main Perl > distro? If it doesn't it doesn't make sense to exercise to different > macro languages. What are the chances Inline.pm will make it in? Well actually probably higher since Brian works for ActiveState... > IMHO, that's the main reason SWIG wasn't really adopted by the Perl > community. If you still need XS to distribute your code on XS, you learn > it anyway, so you use it. SWIG wasn't adopted because for many things it sucked :-) But yes, I totally understand your point. Hopefully by attacking from the XML standpoint, which the core perl people are starting to realise is an important part of where Perl needs to be, we might have a chance at that, but I'm not going to break my back trying to get it "core" sanctioned - they haven't added *any* significant new modules into core in a long time. Oh, and did I mention that MoC requires Python as a pre-processor right now - it kinda has that going against it too :-) -- /|| ** Founder and CTO ** ** http://axkit.com/ ** //|| ** AxKit.com Ltd ** ** XML Application Serving ** // || ** http://axkit.org ** ** XSLT, XPathScript, XSP ** // \\| // ** mod_perl news and resources: http://take23.org ** \\// //\\ // \\