On Sep 7, 2009, at 9:42 PM, Andrew Dougherty wrote:
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Would it be possible to augment the configure.com code that finds
extensions
to correctly partition "nonxs_extensions" from "known_extensions"?
(being the rather bonkers way that Configure partitions XS and non-
XS
extensions)
Coming late to this discussion . . .
The "bonkers way" that Configure "works" now is indeed a hodge-podge
growth representing the way stuff grew "organically". I've no time
right
now, but will try to look Tuesday afternoon (US, Eastern time) and see
what's up here.
Unless you've already "solved" the problem by then!
Thanks. I'm pretty sure, if doing exactly the same thing in
configure.com that's done in Configure is a solution (or at least
consistently bonkers), we have solved it as of:
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/d1ce36d
and
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/63d5291
On VMS we were not populating nonxs_ext at all, and we were treating
dynamic_ext and extensions as the same thing and including everything
in them. I think that was just a side effect of the organic growth
you referred to plus my inattention during certain parts of it.
Part of the evolution probably has to do with nomenclature. I'm quite
sure I've been told at some point in the distant past that it's not
proper to call a module an "extension" unless it has XS code in it.
If that was ever a valid or consistent convention, the current mass
migration from lib/ to ext/ buries it pretty deep.
Using the extensions.pl Nicholas posted elsewhere in this thread, I
now see:
$ perl extensions.pl
extensions static dynamic nonxs known
Archive/Extract nonxs
Archive/Tar nonxs
Attribute/Handlers nonxs
B dynamic known
B/Debug nonxs
B/Deparse nonxs
B/Lint nonxs
CGI nonxs
CPANPLUS nonxs
CPANPLUS/Dist/Build nonxs
Compress/Raw/Bzip2 dynamic known
Compress/Raw/Zlib dynamic known
Cwd dynamic known
Data/Dumper dynamic known
Devel/DProf dynamic known
Devel/PPPort dynamic known
Devel/Peek dynamic known
Devel/SelfStubber nonxs
Digest nonxs
Digest/MD5 dynamic known
Digest/SHA dynamic known
Encode dynamic known
Errno nonxs
Fcntl dynamic known
File/Fetch nonxs
File/Glob dynamic known
FileCache nonxs
Filter/Simple nonxs
Filter/Util/Call dynamic known
Hash/Util dynamic known
Hash/Util/FieldHash dynamic known
I18N/LangTags nonxs
I18N/Langinfo dynamic known
IO dynamic known
IO/Compress nonxs
IO/Zlib nonxs
IPC/Cmd nonxs
IPC/Open2 nonxs
IPC/Open3 nonxs
List/Util dynamic known
Log/Message nonxs
Log/Message/Simple nonxs
MIME/Base64 dynamic known
Math/BigInt/FastCalc dynamic known
Module/CoreList nonxs
Module/Load nonxs
Module/Load/Conditional nonxs
Module/Loaded nonxs
Module/Pluggable nonxs
Net/Ping nonxs
Object/Accessor nonxs
Opcode dynamic known
POSIX dynamic known
Package/Constants nonxs
Params/Check nonxs
Parse/CPAN/Meta nonxs
PerlIO/encoding dynamic known
PerlIO/scalar dynamic known
PerlIO/via dynamic known
Pod/Plainer nonxs
SDBM_File dynamic known
Safe nonxs
SelfLoader nonxs
Shell nonxs
Socket dynamic known
Storable dynamic known
Switch nonxs
Sys/Hostname dynamic known
Term/ANSIColor nonxs
Term/Cap nonxs
Term/UI nonxs
Test/Harness nonxs
Text/Balanced nonxs
Text/Soundex dynamic known
Thread/Queue nonxs
Thread/Semaphore nonxs
Tie/File nonxs
Tie/Memoize nonxs
Time/HiRes dynamic known
Time/Piece dynamic known
Unicode/Normalize dynamic known
VMS/DCLsym dynamic known
VMS/Stdio dynamic known
XS/APItest dynamic known
XS/Typemap dynamic known
attributes dynamic known
autodie nonxs
autouse nonxs
base nonxs
mro dynamic known
re dynamic known
threads dynamic known
threads/shared dynamic known
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