Hi Artur- Inspired by some difficulties I've had implementing and using Alien modules I've made some proposals for updating the Alien manifesto based on some current best practices that aren't spelled out and some other ideas that I believe would be a big improvement to the Alien artform.
I'm working on an update to Alien.pm which would make the most sense if it were an update to the actual Alien module. Would you be willing to support such an update? My hope is that the clarification and more detailed specs will help more Alien::XXX modules to be developed and that they would be more generally useful. I would appreciate your thoughts or other suggestions. Thanks, Chris ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Marshall <devel.chm...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:26 AM Subject: Alien modules for PDL To: pdl-porters <pdl-port...@jach.hawaii.edu> Here are some threads of discussion on the module-authors list where I've been working through some ideas for problems with the Alien modules process: - Inconsistent implementation - Poor cross-platform support - Poor documentation of which platforms work - Lack of consistent, useful diagnostics - CPAN Testers results not fully useful Comments are welcome. I'm hoping to draft an updated Alien manifesto and would like to see some of these ideas migrate into some sort of support within Alien::Base framework. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/2013/07/msg10026.html http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/2013/08/msg10059.html http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/2013/08/msg10037.html Cheers, Chris
