These modules are intended to provide a framework for writing xPL
applications (see http://wiki.xplproject.org.uk/) in Perl. A number
of sample applications are also provided including a hub, a logging
client, a bridge and a command line message sender.

In order to ensure that the applications stay running, I run
the applications using Dan Bernstein's "daemontools" from:

  http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

You could also use runit (http://smarden.org/runit/) or just
using wrappers and /etc/inittab.

When looking at the code, particularly the code for the message
schemas, you will notice that there isn't much of it. This is
intentional. I don't generally like writing the same code more than
once and would rather get Perl to generate it. Also, I'd like
eventually to parse a schema definition directly to generate the
classes representing that message schema.

This is an early release of the API and it likely that it will still
change a little over the next few weeks and months.

Example xPL clients are provided for:

  X10 using heyu (http://www.heyu.org/),
  Phaedrus VIOM IO controllers,
  Milford DMX transmitters,
  1-wire,
  EasyDAQ USB relay controllers,
  Dawn and Dusk,
  CTX35,
  Current Cost Energy Meters,
  Free Desktop (D-Bus) Notifications,
  LIRC,
  RFXCOM RF transmitters and receivers,
  W800 RF receivers,
  sending SMS messages,
  UDIN USB relay controllers,
  X11 On-screen display nofitications,
  Wake-on LAN,
  X11 virtual keyboard for faking key presses,
  and more

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the Artistic License can
be found in '/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic'.