On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:49:33PM +0100, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > If people have free time to spend on configure stuff, might it not be > better spent working on the real configure system that we want to have > (e.g. a set of makefiles for each platform to build miniparrot, then > configure is a Parrot program run by miniparrot that figures stuff out that > we need to build the full Parrot)?
Perhaps this is just me being navie but I had imagined that some form of the existing Configure system would live on as PIR/PBC that included with the distribution to executed by miniparrot. Someday we will be be able to compile perl5 to PIR, right? Or even p5 -> p6 -> PIR. ;) Cheers, -J --
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