On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:55:02PM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> From: Brian Ingerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > Jarkko Hietaniemi (the Perl 5.8 "Pumpking") wrote me on
> > Monday to ask if I would consider putting Inline into Perl
> > release 5.8.0 as a core module. This is tenatively
> > scheduled for release mid-summer 2001.
>
> This is great news. Congratulations. Something like Inline really is needed.
Adding Brian's cryptic message to Jarkko's recent message on p5p I had
already come up with 5. At first I thought it was great news. I still
think it's probably a good idea, but I wouldn't be too concerned if it
didn't happen.
I have been considering using Inline to add some C to speed up and
reduce memory usage of my CPAN module. If Inline is in the core, that
is easy, but for a while I'm sure I would still need to support the Perl
part anyway, so it wouldn't bother me to say if you need the C part you
must install Inline first.
However, the sooner Inline gets in the core, the sooner it is in old
versions of Perl too.
> > 2) The Parse::RecDescent dependency will have to be removed for
> > Inline::C. Jarkko and Damian do not want Parse::RecDescent in
> > the core.
>
> Out of curiousity... why?
I would guess that the long awaited version 2 will not be ready for
prime time by 5.8.0 ETA.
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