On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Solinski, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: >> ... >> And what does it mean with the "dominant compiler" bit? I would >> suggest we have more windows hackers using Strawberry Perl + MinGW >> than we have using MSVC. Do we support both? Do we only mark one >> "supported" when the other may be more "supportable"? Duke raises a >> great point with regards to BSD variants: We have much more support >> capability and a better track record of test success on various >> flavors of BSD than we have on Windows. At what point do we say that >> "We can support BSD", or "We *will* support it"? >> ... > > I must be one of those *few* Windows (Windows 7) users who does use MSVC > (2008) and ActivePerl. This (MSVC) is what I use because it is my work > development environment. I have been building (or trying to build) Parrot at > least once a week for many years. I always build with the ICU libraries and > have scripts that help me effortlessly config, build and test the build.
I (as of recently) have a win7 box with MSVC + Strawberry Perl. > I do this because I hope, some day, to use Parrot to work build a dynamic O-O > language. Unfortunately, I have never gotten a "round tuit". If there is > any way that I can continue to build and test while helping the Parrot > community, I'd be very happy to do so. What would be involved in setting up > my system to report results? install "TAP::Harness::Archive" and "LWP::UserAgent" from CPAN, then "make smoke". (if you have an http proxy, set the http_proxy env variable). > > Regards, > Mark Solinski > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev > -- Will "Coke" Coleda _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
