Re: Distributing C code

2008-03-18 Thread Alberto Simões
Hi Guy Hulbert wrote: On Mon, 2008-17-03 at 17:23 +, Alberto Simões wrote: What I would like was to rewrite this configure system and base it in Perl. I want to make all the package installable from CPAN as all users of the C package uses the Perl module interface. My question is: what

Re: Distributing C code

2008-03-18 Thread Tim Bunce
You might find Memcached::libmemcached interesting. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Memcached-libmemcached/ It ships with a bundled copy of the libmemcached source. Makefile.PL not only runs the libmemcached configure script, but also make and make install. (The install directory is actually a temp

Config::IniFiles - Resuming Maintenance

2008-03-18 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! It seems that Config::IniFiles has not been maintained for over 4 years now: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-IniFiles/ It's the module with the newest release by its maintainer and has 14 open bugs in RT. I'd like to resume its maintenance, and ask someone to give me a co-maintainer

Ideas for soc, Looking for mentors

2008-03-18 Thread Juan Luis Belmonte
Hiya. First of all thank you for reading me. Im thinking in a module to manage iptables in an object oriented, and dynamic way. So i would like to meet a mentor or mentors interested in system administration and networking. That way I can explain deeper a mor detailed the idea and see if is

Re: Ideas for soc, Looking for mentors

2008-03-18 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Juan Luis Belmonte # on Tuesday 18 March 2008 14:19: Im thinking in a module to manage iptables in an object oriented, and dynamic way. Hi Juan, That sounds like an interesting idea. Have you looked on CPAN, sourceforge, etc for prior art? If you find some prior art, propose an

Re: Ideas for soc, Looking for mentors

2008-03-18 Thread David Nicol
shorewall-perl might be a place to start; shorewall comes up zero on cpan search, yet is a big perl program; so converting it to an O-O module should be a simple matter of time and coffee :) On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Eric Wilhelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # from Juan Luis Belmonte # on

Re: Ideas for soc, Looking for mentors

2008-03-18 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Tue, 2008-18-03 at 18:28 -0500, David Nicol wrote: shorewall-perl might be a place to start; shorewall comes up zero on cpan search, yet is a big perl program; so converting it to an O-O module should be a Actually it seems already broken into modules: