Bug#779204: ITP: libdevel-callchecker-perl -- custom op checking attached to subroutines

Wed Feb 25 12:53:25 UTC 2015

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>

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* Package name    : libdevel-callchecker-perl
  Version         : 0.006
  Upstream Author : Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram at fysh.org>
* URL             : https://metacpan.org/release/Devel-CallChecker
* License         : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl, C
  Description     : custom op checking attached to subroutines

 Devel::CallChecker makes some new features of the Perl 5.14.0 C API
 available to XS modules running on older versions of Perl.  The
 features are centred around the function cv_set_call_checker, which
 allows XS code to attach a magical annotation to a Perl subroutine,
 resulting in resolvable calls to that subroutine being mutated at
 compile time by arbitrary C code.  This module makes
 cv_set_call_checker and several supporting functions available.  (It is
 possible to achieve the effect of cv_set_call_checker from XS code on
 much earlier Perl versions, but it is painful to achieve without the
 centralised facility.)

Packaging will be maintained in the perl team.

Package is needed by libmoops-perl.