Perl 5 LWP Design
Roy T. Fielding (fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU)
Sun, 05 Mar 1995 05:33:07 -0800
> One thought that strikes me is why we don't just provide a perl
> interface to the CERN libwww code. Does anybody know the internals of
> libwww well enough to comment on how difficult this would be?
Very difficult in terms of understanding. The CERN library is massively
mucked-up with C macros. You would also lose the ability to interactively
debug the library internals. When I originally wrote libwww-perl, the CERN
code was also a bit buggy and out-of-date.
OTOH, Henrik has improved things greatly in v3 and it will always have more
people supporting it than lwp does. I think Dan Connolly once wrote a
perl to CERN libwww interface, but that was over a year ago and was never
complete.
......Roy Fielding ICS Grad Student, University of California, Irvine USA
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