[Mono-list] Syslog Access

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 06:06, Iain McCoy wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 14:35, Craig Dayton wrote:
> > Perhaps exploring the possibility of using PerlNet a product marketed by
> > ActiveState might be a cost effective solution.
> > 
> > With PerlNet, one can define an Interface to any module on CPAN and compile
> > it as a library or executable.  So from a developer's prospective, a
> > programmer can leverage modules in CPAN and the .NET community all within a
> > single executable.  Thanks to Mono this capability is now extended to the
> > Unix world. No sense in reinventing the wheel is there?  
> Is it extended to the unix world? My understanding of PerlNet was that
> it worked by interfacing between the regular win32 perl interpreter and
> the MS CLR - not by compiling perl code to normal managed code. The MS
> CLR interfaces that it would use are not replicated by mono, so I
> suspect it doesn't work on a unix.

This is my understanding too.  However a solution for reusing CPAN
modules from within a .NET application on Unix would be to expose the
modules functionality in a SOAP server and access it via HTTP remoting
or a SOAP proxy, I am going to be giving a short talk in part on this
subject at YAPC::Europe next month and will post my slides sometime
afterwards if people are interested.  On Windows as an alternative for
reuse is to wrap the Perl module in a WIndows Script Component and
access it via COM Late binding in the .NET program.

Then there is perl-sharp by Rich Wareham  at
  
  http://charon.ucam.org/mason/software/perl-sharp.html

and PerlSharp by Joshua Tauberer at 

  http://taubz.for.net/code/perlsharp/

both of which are intended to enable accessing Perl code directly from
mono programs.

/J\


http://taubz.for.net/code/perlsharp/