On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:50:02PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > Much more likely is some kind of wrapper that manages a simple > perl5-like run-time environment (stacks, marks, gimme, symboltable > etc) plus source-code compatibility support (macros, functions etc) > that's just sufficient to keep old XS code happy.
That's all I'd ask for, but the scope of that project is truly incredible. Granted that the one could get most of their bang for their buck out of just handling those found in perlguts, but the devil is in the details. There is a lot of code that just happens to work out there, not because the API says it should, but the implementation allows it by accident. > If someone wants to champion that work I'll certainly contribute. ditto that... (wish I had more time) > Tim [who doesn't want to rewrite the DBI's ~4000 lines or tell the > many DBD authors that they have to rewrite their drivers]. And folks without DBI, you can kiss Perl's ass goodbye... -- `dd if=.signature of=/dev/null`
