Hi,

I've been wondering about this for some time.. is it worth rewriting a program to be pure perl or write a wrapper for the program?

yup, I know it depends but I'm thinking of the distribution part...

for example: there isn't a cpan module for a pure perl module for cvs.. only a series of wrappers for the command line. What does this mean? If I'm going to distribute a perl app, I'm going to have to install cvs as well.

I understand that there are many programs where a wrapper is necessary due to licensing (i.e. RAR) or because a pure perl implementation would be far too slow (i.e. GUI). However, there are many more where it would make sense for a pure perl implentation (the various rcs implementations).

Jason L. Froebe

I'm not explaining myself very well I'm afraid.

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In reply to create wrappers for existing tools or rewrite? by jfroebe

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