Yes, they are identical to modules bundled with pike in every way, except that they're not bundled with pike. They can be registered on modules.gotpike.org and installed automatically using pike -x monger.
Bill
On Wed, 19 Jun 2019, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
William Welliver wrote:
This sounds like a prime candidate for an external module rather than something included in the core, given its somewhat specialist nature and the fact that most systems won't be able to use it without downloading souce code. You could bundle the library source and not increase the size of the Pike tarballs or time of builds that likely won't have the lib. The build infrastructue is the same, so if in the future it were desirable to shift to the core, the effort would be very minimal.
Do external modules support cmod compilation?
Stephen.