Seeking a 0.005 release blog post

[Joel Berger]

Hello everyone,

Once again I want to thank you for and congratulate you on all your hard work on the latest release of Alien::Base!

Of course, on its own, without adoption, AB does not help the Perl eco-system. To that end I would like to see a blog post about the recent flurry of effort, the improvements that have been made and the release itself. I would be happy to do it myself (as I often do for Mojolicious) but if one of our new contributors would prefer, I would be happy to defer. 

[mohawk]

Graham, feel like saying some words? If not, I'll put something together.

[Graham Ollis]

Mohawk, I encourage you to do write something if you are able to.  I'm not able to right now, but I think coming from one of the new members suggests growth and vitality in the team.  I am assuming that we are talking about blogs.perl.org?  Please post a link to anything written to this thread I will comment if I see any interesting comments.

I am thinking about putting together a couple of mini talks on Alien and FFI for PPW.

[mohawk]

I propose something like this:

Alien::Base - new version (0.005) released!

About a month ago, a new phase of activity started on this project. There have been important contributions from Zaki Mughal (CPAN: ZMUGHAL) and Graham Ollis (CPAN: PLICEASE) along with a number of others - see the Changes file for specifics. Changes include (the full list is long!):

* greatly improve Win32 support
* ease support for building eg Debian packages
* enable use of LWP instead of HTTP::Tiny
* the beginning of FFI support

Next on the agenda will include adding "free" Inline support, and improving FFI support, so Alien module-makers will be able to provide those functionalities with no effort. Exciting times ahead!

[Graham Ollis]

I would just add an invitation for contributors, pointing them 1) to the mailing list to discuss features, ask questions and 2) to the GitHub for PRs.  In  that order I think.

I am working on talk proposals for PPW

Graham