http://www.advogato.org/person/robbe/ Advogato blog for robbe en-us mod_virgule Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:48:27 GMT Wed, 5 Jan 2000 22:39:58 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/robbe/diary.html?start=0 http://www.advogato.org/person/robbe/diary.html?start=0 Some days ago I was mad enough to begin hacking on another project. I decided that it had to be <em>serious</em> (or somesuch), so settled on C for the language. <p> Now, having cobbled together quite a few small contraptions in Perl, I was amazed that the most widespread language lacks a resemblance of the mighty CPAN. In other words: there is no comprehensive repository of C modules each doing one thing. <p> There are certainly various libraries doing wonderful deeds, <em>but</em>: <p> <ul> <li>They are spread over the whole world. At least I don't know of a site where one can search for e.g. <tt>JPEG</tt> and see a number of source files/libraries offering JPEG (de)compression. <p> <li>They are a tad to unwieldy. In most cases, I don't care about a lib that has a million features. I just want, say, a function that sends a mail over SMTP. </ul> <p> I'm still wondering why CCAN does not exist, yet. <p> Robbe &lt;robbe@orcus.priv.at&gt;