Hi, Am Freitag, den 23.07.2010, 11:50 +0100 schrieb Nicholas Clark: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:54:10PM +0200, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: > > > It shouldn't be too hard to write a Perl 5 script, to be run as > > part of Rakudo's build process, that automatically updates the > > leap-second table in tai-utc.pm. > > Dogfood failure. > > That should be a Perl 6 script.
Been there, done that :) See http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/619 > Yes, really, I'm serious about this, and the importance of this. > Whilst Perl 5 isn't self-hosting, it builds a perl interpreter as early as > possible and uses that for the rest of the build system. This > > a: makes it easier for more end users to be able to fix things that hurt them, > increasing the pool of potential core contributors > b: ensures that the core contributors are end uses of the language they > maintain > I think one weakness of Parrot is that it uses almost no Parrot-based language > in its own build system. You need to know Perl 5 or C to be useful to the > Parrot core. And if you gain your fun by working on the Parrot core, you > actually stop being a Parrot user, and hence experiencing what they > experience. Have a look at nqp-rx + kakapo + plumage + proto/PLS for some examples where you can help without any C or Perl 5 knowledge: http://gitorious.org/parrot-plumage http://gitorious.net/kakapo/kakapo http://github.com/masak/proto/tree/pls And not to forget, the growing list of Perl 6 modules, where help is of course always highly welcome: http://modules.perl6.org/ Have fun, Raphael.
