[Melbourne-pm] Perl crypto code

[Shlomi Fish]

On Sunday 24 September 2006 13:18, Scott Penrose wrote:
> On 23/09/2006, at 18:35, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Regarding h2xs, one should probably prefer module-starter:
> >
> > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Starter/
>
> Agreed, avoid h2xs if you can :-)
>
> > 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.
>
> I can't find it right now (not online) but you can generate your
> Makefile.PL from your Build.PL - so you can still generate backwards
> compatible Perl5 stuff with Module-Starter.

Actually, that's not what I meant. Module-Starter can generate 
ExtUtils::MakeMaker-based distros with a Makefile.PL. However, the code that 
it puts inside the module is more modern and may only work on a modern perl. 
With h2xs, on the other hand, one can specify the version of perl that the 
skeleton will be able to run on.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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