Re: [Swig-devel] Package option for Perl (feedback desired)

[Jason S. <jas...@gm...>]

Hey,

Didn't get any comments.

Just wanting to know if this is an incompatible change before I go
ahead and commit...

On 08/04/2008, Jason Stewart <jas...@gm...> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
>  This is in regards to the following thread that I started about 18 months ago.
>
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.swig.devel/16355/focus=16357
>
>  Since then, I have been maintaining my own custom-rolled perl5.cxx
>  with this support included. The short version is that the patch allows
>  code to be split into multiple swig interface files, but all to live
>  in the same Perl namespace.
>
>  This patch makes that possible by enabling the
>  %module(package="Foo::Bar") syntax for Perl.
>
>  My concern is that I made a change to the naming of the global
>  variables in perl5.cxx, the variable fullmodule was changed to
>  namespace_module assist in locating all the places in the code that
>  needed to be fixed. I'm worried that this is incompatible with other
>  modules.
>
>  Before I commit, could someone advise if this is OK?
>
>  Cheers, jas.
>
>  PS. The code compiles and passes all tests.
>