Alien::Base will be a base class to help build Alien:: modules for simple libraries. Initially the target will be Alien::GSL (and probably other Gnu libraries) but in principle there is no limitation. Special thanks go out to: - Christian Walde (Mithaldu) for productive conversations about component interoperablility, - kmx for writing Alien::Tidyp from which I drew many of my initial ideas, - David Mertens (run4flat) for productive conversations about implementation, - Mark Nunberg (mordy, mnunberg) for graciously teaching me about rpath and dynamic loading,