Hi all, It's been a year or two since I wrote anything here. I was still in the mailing list and had a look at some interresting questions and answers. It seems to me that the most active devloper is Patrick. It's also the only module that releases now and then.
I have 2 or 3 points I'd like to discuss with you. The first one is not fun so I take it first. Last time, we talked quite a lot about Inline 0.50 and Ingy's book, none of which happend :-( So who is doing what today? Who is "in charge"? What is planned? I a single word, what is the status? I was cleaning my old hard disk when I found some Inline modules laying there unused. Inline::Flex, Yacc, Byacc. I remember I had a look at Re2C and Lemon too but I couldn't find them again. I would be nice if some one took over those or, if there is interrest, that few people work out some inline modules made for writting Lexers and parsers (I'm in for a group work). I remember that I pointed out a problem with Parse::RecDescent which was way too slow for any serious work (for me). One of the answers I got then was that Inline was made for "simple" stuff and in that case P::RD would be enough. I still fail to see why Inline would be for simple stuff. I noticed some new Inline modules have appeared on CPAN, that's great. I hope things will happend again in this list and in the Inline modules. I hope I can contribute to that. I also have a question about reciprocity. I might have missed something and I'd be glad if someone can point in the right direction. Inline allwos me to write extention to perl but only in one direction. For example, I can write a function in python to be called from perl but I can't call any perl function from within the inlined python code. I have embedded perl in an application; from the perl scripts I run, I can access the application. Now I'd like to use Inline to bind to other languages but that means calling perl functions from within the other languages. Is there a way to do that? Cheers, Nadim.
