Re: Talking about xs...

2001-03-12 Thread Roger Burton West

On or about Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:31:09AM +, Leon Brocard typed:

>Roger Burton West sent the following bits through the ether:
>> ]librsync (http://freshmeat.net/projects/librsync/)
>I was *sure* something like this was already on CPAN[1]. H. I still
>don't really see what advantages having this in Perl would give
>you. What kind of applications were you thinking of?

Ones where (a) one doesn't want to shell out and create an extra process
or (b) one has control over the perl environment but not over the
general system to install rsync.

Roger



Re: Talking about xs...

2001-03-12 Thread Leon Brocard

Roger Burton West sent the following bits through the ether:

> This strikes me as something that needs a perl module... anyone feeling
> particularly bored and like playing with XS?
> 
> ]librsync (http://freshmeat.net/projects/librsync/)

I was *sure* something like this was already on CPAN[1]. H. I still
don't really see what advantages having this in Perl would give
you. What kind of applications were you thinking of?

Leon

[1] A wrapper: http://dev.perl.org/archive/13/045
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