On 01/03/2012 03:43 PM, Florent Angly wrote:
Good question! I see three advantages of the Pure-perl approach: 1/ It should work on all platforms, including the hurd-i386, where the C/XS approach does not work
The failure on hurd-i386 is trivial to fix (just include stdint.h like on Linux).
2/ Some Perl developers prefer to not rely on Perl modules that use C/XS because this allows them to more easily make and deploy tarballs that contain all dependencies
Is this relevant for Debian? I would assume to already use a local version for development if they plan to bundle it later as well.
3/ There is at least one method in the pure Perl version that the C/XS approach does not have
get_seed/set_seed?
4/ I have interacted with the developer of the pure Perl module but have had no such luck with the developer of the C/XS version. The pure Perl version may hence be easier to maintain in Debian in the future.
We had the same discussion for the Digest::SHA::PurePerl module[1] in the past where several people raised the same point (pureperl re-implementations are usually not needed on Debian).
Regards, Ansgar [1] <http://bugs.debian.org/556386> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
