Re: Perl plugin

["MPoole" <urgen@triyana.mine.nu>]

I'm just hoping there can be a way to use Cygwin's perl instead of
requiring ActiveState's

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jd" <boredom@discordant.org>
To: <xchat-discuss@nl.linux.org>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: Perl plugin


> > > use lib "/home/foo/.xchat2";
> > > use IRC;
> >
> > That wouldn't be sufficient to be accepted in current stable. Users
> > can't be expected to edit scripts to make them work.
>
> Well when, if ever, are you going to be willing to 'break' the Perl
plugin
> interface? It needs a good breaking to get fixed.
>
> When I have the time to actually sit down and do it, I am willing to
do
> compatibility functions.. but it will be wasteful, because in some
cases
> simple stubs calling the new functions won't suffice, there will be
> duplication of very similar commands. I much prefer the seperate "use
> IRC.pm" idea .. I mean really, there are at best maybe 5 useful perl
> scripts for XChat that actually work properly in 2.0.x, most were
> abandoned in favour of languages without braindead interfaces long
ago.
> Nobody even noticed a broken get_user_info! I hardly think there would
be
> a rebellion on your hands if John Q User needed to add a line or two
to
> make his sysinfo script work again. The vast majority of good XChat
> perl scripts don't work properly in 2.0.x as it is, they've been
> abandoned.
>
> If you're ever going to take XChat into a new development branch, I'd
> really like to see the old Perl plugin, and all compatibility with it,
> killed stone dead at that time. Frankly, Perl scripting on XChat is
not
> exactly thriving these days.
>
> -J Dietrich
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