# from Sisyphus # on Sunday 24 September 2006 02:29 am: >we have an XS file that we can bundle with >a normal Makefile.PL, MANIFEST, etc and put on CPAN.
good points, but: a) How much trouble is it to have a dependency on Inline::C ? b) How do you make it clear that you want patches against your inline code and *not* the autogenerated XS? (Or, is that not a big issue?) c) What happens to the other perl code in the .pm file with "use Inline..." ? Assuming you have good answers to those, I could see usefullness in something like "make xsdist" (and, "xs", "xstest" targets.) Aside: I don't like the convention of changing the import() arguments in the .pm file (such as the "VERSION => ..." thing) to build a release. Mostly, it bothers me to have a diff in svn just because of a build. >Anyway, I'm basically just trying to work out which way to go with > this. Do I persevere with Inline::C2XS along its current lines ? or > do I rewrite Inline::C2XS so that it use Inline::C to write the XS > file ? or do I provide a patch to Inline/Inline::C ? or do I just > forget about the whole issue ? Without a compelling answer to (a), I would say "forget", but you may well have a compelling answer. On another note, there was some interest in getting Module::Build to work with Inline. I would personally prefer that, but a lot of the inline magic is in makefile generation, so a makeless implementation could be tricky. As for patching Inline, I thought today might be a good day to again look at merging my changes onto http://svn.kwiki.org/ingy/Inline, but alas: it is out to lunch. Has anyone else looked at this lately? It seems to have gone through some juggling around the beginning of the year, but without the benefit of a trunk, branches, tags layout. Maybe something on svn.perl.org would be more reliable? --Eric -- "If you only know how to use a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail." --Richard B. Johnson --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------------
