[Pdx-pm] RE:Perl & XS

[Brian Ingerson]

On 19/03/03 13:44 -0800, Joe Oppegaard wrote:
> >
> > > Until yesterday, I hadn't heard of the Inline:: module.
> > >  Thanks people.  Now, I've studied C, but I never found
> > > just a library reference.  How can I find out what
> > > libraries are available, and what their functions do? 
> > > I'm really used to the CPAN and was wondering why there
> > > isn't a C counterpart.  Am I just totally missing it? 
> > > Is it right there in front of my eyes?  Thanks.
> > > 
> > 
> > Funny you should bring that up. Where's Ingy? :)
> >
> 
> While being cryptic above was fun:
> 
> See the in development, though very exciting FreePAN:
> 	http://freepan.org

FreePAN should definitely be extended to C. I think it require a little
bit of design, but I'd really like to see it. It would be great to have
a repository of C "modules", and I think it would be a great resource
for people learning how to create sharable C libraries.

Cheers, Brian