Ok, I guess I jumped to a wrong conclusion, since most whiners about XS seem to come from Windows users. So then the question becomes "If it's such a PITA, why do you support AIX ? "

I don't think you have made any points against XS, and I doubt if module writers are going to go through the hassle of making "special pure perl ports" of their XS-based modules, just so a few people can avoid the hassle of installing a C compiler on their platform(Well maybe if you pay them). If you are doing this for some customers, who won't change, explain the situation to them, and charge them more money for "YOU" to write the pure perl ports of the modules.

Also what puzzles me, if you advertise your services, to support AIX, why don't YOU buy a compiler for AIX, and compile the XS modules for your AIX customers?

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

In reply to Re^3: Disputation of g0n on the power and efficacy of XS by zentara
in thread Disputation of g0n on the power and efficacy of XS by g0n

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