[Melbourne-pm] Perl crypto code

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all!

This is my first post to this list. I'm not living in Melbourne, either, but 
rather am an Israeli. You can learn more about me on my homesite: 
http://www.shlomifish.org/ . In any case, I've been helping Simon Taylor and 
Becky Alcorn (who are living in Melbourne, IIRC) with perlmeme.org.

Now back to the issue at hand.

On Saturday 23 September 2006 03:47, Jacinta Richardson wrote:
> > 2. How difficult is it to build Perl modules? I've been thinking about
> > integrating some crypto code into Perl via a Crypt::bla module. I know
> > that some CPAN modules are written in Perl and some in C. Are there any
> > good tutorials for writing modules?
>
> Grab our Programming Perl, and Object Oriented Perl course notes from
> http://perltraining.com.au/notes.html  also our "Starting modules with
> h2xs" perl tip: http://perltraining.com.au/tips/2005-09-26.html
>

Regarding h2xs, one should probably prefer module-starter:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Starter/

It is more modern, and also is pluginnable:

http://search.cpan.org/search?query=module-starter&mode=all

h2xs may still be useful if you'd like to generate module templates that will 
also be compatible with older versions of perl5.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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