On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 16:29 -0800, chromatic wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2007 11:29, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: > > > Does Perl 6 on Parrot have Perl 5 connectivity? > > Not until Perl 6 can use PIR code. After that, it depends on what you want > to > do with the two. > > If you can get Parrot::Embed compiled and running on your machine, Perl 5 can > have Parrot connectivity. (As far as I know, Windows is the only broken > platform now, but I already knew that.)
OK, between chromatic and Audrey, it sounds like the paths forward are: 1. Add tests to Pugs for packed data handling. 2. Pugs implements functionality for said tests. 3. Port of OpenGL code proceeds assuming use of SDL/OpenGL via Perl 5. 4. Perl 6 on Parrot implements PIR calls. 5. Perl 6 on Parrot gets native packed arrays. Then either: 6. Perl 6 on Parrot gets Perl 5 connectivity. 7. Perl 6 on Parrot uses #3 as written. or: 6. SDL/OpenGL are wrapped directly in PIR. 7. #3 is rewritten to use native Parrot modules. Of course, *both* paths will probably eventually be followed, it's just a question of which one works first. :-) In the mean time, I need to try to find my commit details for the Pugs repo so that I can check out a copy and start on step 1. -'f
