Re: [Arsperl-devel] ARSperl package structure changes

[Thilo S. <thi...@ap...>]

Georg Grabler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> h2ph_pre.ph <http://h2ph_pre.ph> and artypes.ph <http://artypes.ph> look 
> the same on my linux workstation in between (1;, with a comment in 
> artypes.ph <http://artypes.ph> that you should not remove this hack :D).

That's exactly the same as on my system. There's also the comment 
warning about removal, but I can see absolutely no reason *why* it 
shouldn't be removed.

> It would be "cleaner" if you change to ARS.pm and ARS:: modules. I'm not 
> sure about the advantages you'd gain though, except that you have a 
> different package structure then. I don't think that you'll need 
> polymorphism, so you'll probably not gain an advantage out of this.

Well, having a cleaner package structure *is* an advantage. Usually 
there are many other packages installed in "site/lib" and I would be a 
horrible mess if each of them just dumped a lot files directly into the 
main directory (one of them might even come with its own "_h2ph_pre.ph" 
where it would get really ugly).

BTW, I think now that the package structure change can probably be 
implemented fully backwards compatible, without requiring any changes in 
user code.


Regards,
Thilo


> 
> Kind regards,
> Georg
> 
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Thilo Stapff <thi...@ap... 
> <mailto:thi...@ap...>> wrote:
> 
>      >
>      > The "ARS::AR_SORT_ASCENDING" business comes from those files. Those
>      > files are supposedly to be generated by Makefile.PL during the build
>      > process. The intention is to give people mnemonic access to header
>      > constants without having them rely on "ars_export(..., 1 | 2 | 8 |
>      > 4096)" messiness.
>      >
> 
>     Are you sure? On my system (Windows XP), "_h2ph_pre.ph
>     <http://h2ph_pre.ph>" and "artypes.ph <http://artypes.ph>"
>     are almost empty. They contain only the statement "1;" so that they can
>     be successfully loaded. The ARS::AR_XXXX_YYYYY constants are defined in
>     ARSar-h.pm (which is also generated by Makefile.PL). Are things
>     generated differently on Unix systems?
> 
> 
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