Re: Perl bindings for libaosd

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 22:43 +0100, JÃrn Reder wrote:

> I just stumbled over libaosd and think it's a cool piece of software, 
> but unfortunately it's missing any Perl bindings so I can't use it with
> my favorite language... ;)
>
>   http://www.atheme.org/projects/libaosd.shtml
>
> It uses Cairo and Pango, which have Perl bindings already and looking at
> the header files it seems binding such a thing should be doable. Anybody
> here going for it? ;) I'd try it myself, if I had more C experience...

It doesn't use GObject to implement its own objects, so it won't be
completely fool-proof to write bindings.  It's still not really hard,
and you don't need that much C experience.  So just give it a try.  Look
at other bindings.  Read some things about Perl's extension language XS.
Ask questions on this list.

-- 
Bye,
-Torsten