Dalvik virtual machine

2007-11-15 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


Did anyone look at Dalvik, the virtual machine Google made for the 
Android project.


   http://code.google.com/android/what-is-android.html
   http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/


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Re: Anyone experiencing problems with rt.cpan.org?

2006-07-10 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

Ovid wrote:


In the last day or so, every time I go to rt.cpan.org, it seems to
 nearly finish loading a page and then just stalls.





My problem was that I couldn't even log in yesterday.  I eventually
filed a bug report with perlbug-admin at perl and Robert had to
diddle the  database to get me sorted.


Wasn't that rt._perl_.org?

To the original poster: Posting about problems with a cpan.org or 
perl.org on a random-ish list or (worse) on use.perl or perlmonks is 
never the best way to get it resolved.



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Re: loadlib and libraries with '.' in the name

2005-10-04 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joshua Juran) writes:

[...]
  Google for NCI gtk. There is also a weekly summary entry but the
  xrl.us shortcut seems to have expired.

If I found the same link you found then it's not the xrl.us shortcut -
http://xrl.us/cw78 - but the Google group link that stopped working.
 
 I was wondering about that.  I Googled for tinyurl considered
 harmful and was surprised to find only one message, discussing the
 phishing risks.  I found no mention of the risk of outsourcing a
 bottleneck to a third party who has zero obligation or direct interest
 to continue providing the service.

The use case for the Metamark service was actually to have a short
links service for the perl list summaries (and for the perl community
in general) to use that's not outsourced.  (Metamark is running on a
server a few feet above the servers your mail went through to go out
to the list subscribers).
 
  From http://metamark.net/about#expire:
 
  Do Metamark links expire?
 
  The Metamark urls expire after five years or two years after the
  last usage - whichever comes later. However, if a link is never
[...]
  Of course, this is subject to change and is no promise but just my
  intentions as of this writing. If you want guarantees you can make
  your own service.

 To be quite frank, I'm astonished the practice exists here in the
 first place.  In my opinion it goes directly against the spirit of [...]

Are you talking about expiring links or putting the short links in the
mails that go out?

Apart from the occasional phishing link then we haven't actually
expired any of the metamark urls yet.

I did some random spot checks on old short URLs used in the summaries
and they get used regularly[1] so even if/when we start expiring
unused links in a few years they won't go away.

[1] by humans or bots, I don't know - for your privacy we don't track
more than a daily count.


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Re: Exit status code from Test::More might go away

2004-07-23 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael G Schwern) writes:

 Short version:  I'm considering dropping the exit code feature from the 
 default behavior of Test::Builder and making it something you can turn on 
 instead.  Does anyone find this feature useful or otherwise wish to
 protest its removal in 0.50?

I'd rather encourage you to remove it!  :-)

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Re: Testing Database Schema

2004-07-22 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Bowden) writes:

[...]
   lots of SQL to a common format. Both seem much too cumbersome, however.
   Anyone have any brighter ideas?
  Don't use a temporary database, just a temporary table.
 
 Surely that's more work?

That depends on how you open your databases and how much trouble it is
to use another database compared to munging the table name.  :-)


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Re: [OT] Re: Single Sign-on Re: Perl Passport?

2004-07-22 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren Chamberlain) writes:

  As I figured it out neither...
  
  Reason: auth.perl.org is part of the SSO (Single Sign-on) that was
  created especially for the perl.org domain and its sub-domains.
  
  As far as I know it isn't a service that is publicly available. And I
  also don't think that Ask or Robert will give away the source, as it
  is build specifically for perl.org and it's setup.
 
 Is that not http://svn.develooper.com/combust/auth/trunk/ ?  You need a
 perl.org account to access it.

(you can also use guest/guest).

The version in that directory is the new version I've been working on.
Hopefully we'll switch auth.perl.org over to use it not long after
OSCON.

Some of the fun things with the new system is that it supports sites
on other domains properly, doesn't use a universal id and I plan to
make it support multiple authentication services.

The client library (perl only for now) is at:
  http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sau-Client/

There are some interesting links at the bottom of 
  http://logintest.perl.org/doc/design_notes.html


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Re: Testing Database Schema

2004-07-22 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Bowden) writes:

[...]
 The two best ideas we've had so far are to either run the SQL in the
 code against a temporary database, and then compare both SHOW CREATE
 TABLE outputs, or to use something like SQL::Translator to convert both
 lots of SQL to a common format. Both seem much too cumbersome, however.
 
 Anyone have any brighter ideas?

One variation that might work (and if it does, it'd also work on other
databases) would be to use DB::Introspector. 

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/DB-Introspector/


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Re: [DOCS] Documentation tools

2004-03-10 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) writes:

[...]
 It's an ongoing fight between the go get the libs and install them
 folks and the self-contained distribution folks. I'm in the latter
 category. :)

As Larry said, self-contained is good for users.  For developers
(and CVS) go get the libs is appropriate.

A script can assemble the user distribution(s) with pre-defined
versions of the libs to include.


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XGameStation

2003-08-11 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

We totally need to have Parrot running on this thing when it comes
out.  :-)

  http://www.xgamestation.com/


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Re: ponie-dev list

2003-07-10 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Richard Clamp wrote:

 Will this be made available via nntp.perl.org?  I don't currently see
 it when browsing http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/

NNTP groups are created automagically some hours after the list
starts getting traffic.  When it makes its way to Google Groups I
don't have much control over, but over time it'll get there too.


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ponie-dev list

2003-07-09 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
Hi,

We setup a development list for ponie.

email

   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

to subscribe.


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Parrot binaries

2003-03-18 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

Hi,

I tried making an RPM .spec file for parrot and noticed that there's
still no make install target.

To be useful or at least fun to play with I think we would need to
also install things from languages/, but they seem to generally be,
uh, fairly unstructured.  :-)

I also noticed[1] that many of the scripts does not have the +x bit
set, and some of the documentation does(!).  It's not possible to
change this via CVS; but we can do it directly in the repository if
someone makes a list of what should be +x.


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[1] find ./ -type f -perm +001 

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tinderbox all in flames

2003-03-10 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

The tinderbox is all in flames.

http://xrl.us/dxm (Link to tinderbox.perl.org)

At least the miette, moof and rh80smoketest boxes should be
okay; and they are not.  :-) Sunday afternoon (PST) seems to be the
hour of the big arson.  However there are also indications that it
started Friday night.  :-)

Slightly related, I think we could use some more tinderbox testers.
Someone was running the tests on Compaq's test drive boxes, but that
seems to have stopped?


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Re: Contributor License forms

2002-11-21 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Storrs) writes:

 Allison has asked me to be the coordinator to make sure that we all
 send in our Contributor License Forms.  You can read all the license
 details at:
 
   http://snipurl.com/bkt

http://pdp.perl.org/contributor_agreement also sends you to that page
(and we can keep that url alive forever (for some definition of that).

 or email scanned copy to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

No, please make it pdp-editors at perl.org for now.  The other address
doesn't work and probably never will. :-)
 
I received faxes from you and from Michael L so far.


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Re: perl6-all doesn't seem to get these

2002-11-11 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Laire) writes:

[...]
 I have subscribed to both perl6-all and perl6-documentation, and
 these messages don't seem to get into perl6-all at all.

It would have been better if you had told [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

I just browsed through the archive for this list and noticed your
post.  perl6-all should be getting the messages now.


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Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerome Quelin) writes:

In the works is a new mail setup where we easily can have lists at
other domains and still have them available via nntp etc.  At that
point I can create a dev at parrotcode.org list or something like
that. (or when the perl6 people want to work on the internals of perl6
:-) )


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Re: [web-PATCH] parrot logo

2002-09-04 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) writes:

[...]
 The logo as currently used suffers from scaling issues, as it looks
 like the full-size one's used with a size specified.

I fixed that.  And made it png.

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Re: GC generation?

2002-08-21 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) writes:

 Rollover won't really matter much, if we're careful with how we
 document things. Still, a UINTVAL should be at least 2^32--do you
 really think we'll have that many GC generations in a few hours?

... but having stuff running for months and months isn't that
uncommon. :-)


  - ask (bikeshed color expert)

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design of bytecodes for interpretation

2002-08-21 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


Raph Levien - http://www.advogato.org/person/raph and
http://www.levien.com/ - talks about bytecode interpreters at
http://www.advogato.org/person/raph/diary.html?start=261 

With references to David McCusker
http://treedragon.com/ged/map/ti/newAug02.htm#14aug02-stack-machines
and to Pierre Phaneuf
http://advogato.org/person/pphaneuf/diary.html?start=63



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Re: admin question: mail gets tagged as spam when mailing bugs..@perl..

2002-08-01 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?Latin1?Q?Josef_h=F6=F6k?=) writes:

 As im not that familiar with spamassasin maybe someone could help me
 stop getting my mail tagged as spam when mailing patches..

Let [EMAIL PROTECTED] know about such thing and we'll take care of
it.  Most likely it has been fixed by Robert upgrading our perl to
5.8.0 proper.


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Re: Parrot contribution

2002-07-12 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Porter) writes:

 Yeah, look at the so-called Parrot FAQ.  Someone needs to
 get serious and make a real FAQ for parrot developers.

I'm sure noone would mind if you start one!


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Re: Glossary Requests

2002-07-12 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Spier) writes:

 I've heard reports of rsync not working. I don't use it, so I dunno 
 there. If someone's got the proper incantation, or follows the 
 directions and it doesn't work (when you're *sure* you know what 
 you're doing) I'll update it appropriately.
 
 Yes, this seems broken at the moment.  I've opened a ticket and will
 get to fixing it soon. 

I fixed it.


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Re: More 6PAN musings: local namespaces

2002-06-24 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damian Conway) writes:

 Larry has previously mentioned the prospect of Perl 6 module names
 being extended to include version number and author.

Yes, we even talked about it extensively at the CPAN meeting in
Monterey 2 years ago. =)

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Re: latest Parrot

2002-06-18 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Robert Spier wrote:

 May I suggest requiring any non-trivial patches to contain:
   - the patch
   - a test
   - a human readable changelog entry

+1!

cvs log exports are rarely useful.

Usually they go

had problems with $baz so we changed $xfoo to $zfoo
to avoid the mangle bug

which is useful for the other developers to understand a change; but
the human readable changelog should go

fixed problem with $baz related to the mangle problem in python 5.1
and perl 6.9.3.

which is useful for users of the package to know about what to look
out for.


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[Oscon] Lightning Talks

2002-06-13 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


If you are going to attend the Open Source Convention; please
consider putting in a lightning talk.


From: Nathan Torkington
Subject: [Oscon] Lightning Talks

Please pass the word around that we need more lightning talk
proposals:

  http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/create/e_sess?x-t=os2002_lt.create.form

Lightning talks are for works-in-progress, ideas you think others
could implement, explanations of neat things you've discovered,
philosophical arguments, success stories, or anything else you can fit
in five minutes.  They're fun for the audience (it's like
channel-surfing at a conference!) and fun for the speakers.

Thanks,

Nat



If you don't know how they work, then there is also a page written
by Mark-Jason Dominus here: http://perl.plover.com/lt/ (mjd
coordinated most of the previous lightning talk sessions).


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cvs.perl.org moved

2002-06-06 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


Robert Spier and I moved cvs.perl.org to a new server tonight.
Everything should work as usual, except maybe a bit faster.  If
anything is odd, not working as it used to, working better, not
working at all, please send us mail at cvs at perl.org.

The new server is faster, spiffier and better connected (the old one
was behind a double T1 in an office; the new one is in a datacenter
with 100Mbit ethernet to internap).  It's donated by the kind people
at Ticketmaster/CitySearch.


 - ask

ps. we couldn't make parrot work for our perl programs yet, but we
are using perl5.8 in production.   :-D

pps. we also decided to run some python on the server, so you can
 also access the cvs at http://cvs.perl.org/viewcvs/parrot/
 Let us know what you think and if that should be permanent
 (viewcvs; not python. We will keep using that when it
 makes sense) :)

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Re: cvs.perl.org moved

2002-06-06 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sebastian Bergmann) writes:

[viewcvs]
   Have you had a look at CHORA [1]? It is IMHO the best web frontend for
   CVS.

no, we haven't. Robert added to our todo list to look at it.  


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Re: Parrot and Mono / .Net

2002-05-26 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sebastian Bergmann) writes:

 Leon Brocard wrote:
  Oh, this happens to be a FAQ. The main reason is:
 
  http://www.parrotcode.org/faq/
 
   I know the technical reason for a new VM, but this could've been a new
   VM for Perl 6 only. What I'd like to know is the motivation to open up
   the architecture and allow for plugable parser, compilers, bytecode
   generators / optimizers, ...

Because if we can support [insert random language here] then we can
support a very flexible Perl 6 language.  Or the other way around.


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Re: Larry's State of the Onion slides

2002-05-13 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Wed, 8 May 2002, Nathan Torkington wrote:

Larry's State of the Onion slides from TPC5 are now available from

  http://dev.perl.org/perl6/talks/
  http://dev.perl.org/perl6/talks/onion5.pdf


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 Damian sent them to me in PPT form in January, and only now I
 converted them to PDF.

 Ask, could you put those onto the dev.perl.org site and announce to
 perl6-language?  Thanks,

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tinderbox history

2002-03-20 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


we have the log output from more than 15 tinderbox builds of
parrot.  In the current system they are each stored as a separate
file (in the same directory no less).

Would anyone get terribly upset if I nuked say everything older than
a month?


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Re: tinderbox history

2002-03-20 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:

 Would anyone get terribly upset if I nuked say everything older than
 a month?

Too late now.  :-)  When it's done deleting then log lookups should
be a lot faster.

Robert said he'd work on a new tinderbox system (with help from
Zach).

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Perl6/Parrot status

2002-02-07 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

Hi,

I am tired of people thinking that we are not getting anywhere at
all, so if (some|any|every)one can send me a reasonably updated text
for the Where are we section at http://www.parrotcode.org/ and
likewise for http://dev.perl.org/perl6/status then I would most
appreciate it. :-)


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Parrot FAQ

2002-02-02 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


I have added Adam's Parrot FAQ to www.parrotcode.org.

It's being loaded from cvs.perl.org every hour, so just checkin
updates to cvs there.

I do,

 $Faq =~ s!.*BODY.*?(.*)/BODY.*!$1!s;
 $Faq =~ s!href=http://www.panix.com/~ziggy/parrot.html!href=/faq/!g;

on it to fix it up, so when changing stuff, keep that in mind (or
tell me to fix the mason component).  It also tells that Ziggy is the
maintainer.  Ziggy, please let me know if you don't want to be
listed. :-)

There are no a name=...'s in the html, so the links from the toc
doesn't work.  If anyone wants to fix that, please do. 


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Re: Parrot FAQ

2002-02-02 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:

 On Saturday 02 February 2002 08:53, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
  I have added Adam's Parrot FAQ to www.parrotcode.org.
 
  It's being loaded from cvs.perl.org every hour, so just checkin
  updates to cvs there.
 
  I do,
 
   $Faq =~ s!.*BODY.*?(.*)/BODY.*!$1!s;
   $Faq =~ s!href=http://www.panix.com/~ziggy/parrot.html!href=/faq/!g;
 
  on it to fix it up, so when changing stuff, keep that in mind (or
  tell me to fix the mason component).  It also tells that Ziggy is the
  maintainer.  Ziggy, please let me know if you don't want to be
  listed. :-)
 
  There are no a name=...'s in the html, so the links from the toc
  doesn't work.  If anyone wants to fix that, please do.

 Thanks, Ask,

 Here's the name patch:

Cool.  I applied it.

Next time please apply yourself or send it without messed up
line endings. :)


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Re: CPP Namespace pollution

2002-01-26 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Melvin Smith wrote:

 Hm, the FAQ would be not linked from either of dev.perl.org or
 www.parrotcode.org. That's a bummer.

 Ask, could we move this to dev.perl.org please?

 Dare I suggest we check it into the repository and have a script
 update the site from the repository. At least then we can tell
 people to check the FAQ in your parrot distribution.

That sounds good to me.


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Re: Parrot FAQ

2001-12-09 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Fink) writes:

 On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:02:34AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:

  Q: Who has commit privileges? Who's responsible for what?
  
  A: Good question. Simon and Dan, and a handful of others.
 
 Can anyone fill in the handful? Ask, maybe? I'm hoping for a breakdown
 by section.

[ask@netlabs ask]$ grep \|parrot /cvs/public/CVSROOT/avail
avail|ask|parrot,mod_parrot,web,perlfaq,CVSROOT,cvs-test,qpsmtpd
avail|simon|parrot
avail|acme|parrot,web/parrotcode
avail|dan|parrot
avail|bdwheele|parrot
avail|gregor|parrot
avail|thgibbs|parrot
avail|brentdax|parrot
avail|gnat|parrot,web/parrotcode,perlfaq
avail|tom|parrot
avail|rootbeer|parrot
avail|ajgough|parrot
avail|jgoff|parrot

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Re: cvs.perl.org downtime (fwd)

2001-12-09 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:

 the city is doing some compliance testing whatever on the building
 where cvs.perl.org is this Sunday (don't ask, I think it sounds odd
 too!).

power is back up and so is the box where cvs.perl.org is.  have fun.
:)


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Re: cvs.perl.org downtime (fwd)

2001-12-09 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:

 power is back up and so is the box where cvs.perl.org is.  have fun.
 :)

Ahaa... never mind the man behind the curtain.

In a particular clever moment I screwed up the ipfw rules so now the
box is running but noone can talk to it.

It's 60 miles away so I can't be bothered to go and fix it right now
(9pm sunday night). Sorry.

Have fun doing something else then. :)


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cvs.perl.org downtime (fwd)

2001-12-08 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

-- Forwarded message --
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 17:25:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Ask Bjoern Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: cvs.perl.org downtime

hi committers,

the city is doing some compliance testing whatever on the building
where cvs.perl.org is this Sunday (don't ask, I think it sounds odd
too!).

They say that we can expect downtime from 6am to 6pm PST.

perl.org mailservice and all other websites than cvs.perl.org are
hosted in the real colo so they will not be affected.

I'm sure there's someone you ought to spend time with anyway, so
don't cry too much. :-)


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tinderbox

2001-11-15 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


we have even more clients now,

  http://tinderbox.perl.org/tinderbox/showbuilds.cgi?tree=parrot

... so if you commit stuff be sure to check with tinderbox 20-60
minutes later that you at least didn't break anything obvious.

:-)


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Re: Languages in the core source tree?

2001-10-27 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael G Schwern) writes:

[...]
 However, the author(s) of each individual interpreter should be
 responsible for their own language.  Basically, a mini-pumpinking.

oh, just to make it clear: Our CVS setup supports just giving someone
access to certain directories within a cvs module.

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Re: Schedule of things to come

2001-10-27 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) writes:

[...]
 If the 0.02/0.03/0.04 versions of parrot leak, it's not that big a deal 
 since it's not like we've got a long-running persistent interpreter like 
 mod_parrot or anything... ;-)

I think Robert and I are planning to get mod_parrot to work as soon as
parrot has some kind of I/O. :-)


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Re: Revamping the build system

2001-10-27 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paolo Molaro) writes:

[...]
 I'm going to bite and say the words (and get the flames).
 
   autoconf automake libtool

FWIW: I have the impression that they're not very happy with those in
the apache httpd project. (But I am blissfully ignorant about the
details).


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Re: Revamping the build system

2001-10-27 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Cozens) writes:

 On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:05:33AM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote:
  While imperfect and Unix-centric, we can (and should!) learn a lot
  from auto{conf,make} and metaconfig.
 
 *nod*. I just had a look around, and most of the other languages are
 using autoconf. But then, most of the other languages don't run on
 upwards of 70 platforms. :(
 
 I wonder how serious we need to be about keeping that goal.

I think we need to be serious about making it possibly.  The freaks
with the weirdo platforms will make it work.


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Re: Languages in the core source tree?

2001-10-27 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) writes:

 At 07:15 AM 10/22/2001 -0700, Wizard wrote:
   1) Do we put them all in the parrot CVS tree
 
 I think it would be good for the languages to be in tree, but I would like
 to have it under a different mechanism for cvs checkout. In other words, the
 default cvs checkout of parrot does NOT check out the languages tree, but a
 separate checkout is required for the languages.
 
 I'll ask Ask and see what we can do for that.

one way to do that would be to make a parrot-languages module and put
them in there.  Then we can have a 'parrot-full' module that will checkout 
parrot/ and parrot-languages into parrot/languages/

It can probably be done in two billion other ways, of which some might
fit better. But it's 6.20am and my brain's associative search system
is only processing about 0.14 ideas per minute.


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Re: cvs snapshots

2001-09-17 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, H.Merijn Brand wrote:

 On Mon 17 Sep 2001 23:08, Ask Bjoern Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  oops, I forgot to tell anyone.  I made CVS export and tar up a
  snapshot every 6 hours. It is available at
  http://cvs.perl.org/snapshots/parrot/
 
 Any chance on rsync? If so, I might set up another smoke suite to bother you
 with reports :)

rsync -av cvs.perl.org::parrot-HEAD parrot

it's only updated every 6th hour.  Maybe I'll get time to get it to
update more often (but not create a snapshot) tonight.


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Re: CVS update mailing list

2001-09-17 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathan Torkington) writes:

 Simon Cozens writes:
  So maybe the best thing would be for people to send patches to the
  list and Cc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 I wonder if, when RT comes online, we could use that to manage the
 patches.  In other words, patches become open to do items, which are
 cleared when the patches are definitively applied or rejected.

uh, RT is online.


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mod_parrot

2001-09-15 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


Robert Spier and I just had some fun.

Parrot for Apache. :-)

http://cvs.perl.org/cvsweb/mod_parrot/

It's really simplistic and doesn't actually work.  As Robert just
told me, it'll be really ugly to get to actually send stuff back to
the browser until Parrot has some kind of real IO subsystem.  But it
does do the work. :-)


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cvs

2001-09-14 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


the cvs box will be down for a little while again. Hopefully I'll
get it moved to the other box over the weekend where I can give
access to the few new people Dan and Simon have asked me to make
accounts for.

And it'll be more stable. And faster. Harder Better Faster Stronger.

:-)


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TPC5 Onion slides

2001-08-07 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

Hi,

I can't find Larry's slides from TPC5 online anywhere. Is it just
me or what? :)


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[Python-Dev] Intel's Open Runtime Platform (ORP) (fwd)

2001-08-07 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


I don't think anyone mentioned this before here...

-- Forwarded message --
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 19:43:53 -0700
From: Neil Schemenauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Python-Dev] Intel's Open Runtime Platform (ORP)

I just saw this while updating my Debian machine:

Package: orp
Description: Java VM and JIT from Intel Research Lab.
 ORP stands for Open Runtime Platform, which is an Intel(TM) Open
 Source research platform for investigating dynamic compilation and
 memory management technologies. The basic ORP system incorporates a
 fast code generating JIT (Just-In-Time) as well as an optimizing
 JIT. It also includes several GC (Garbage Collection) algorithms,
 ranging from a simple mark-sweep algorithm to an advanced train
 algorithm.

Its available at http://intel.com/research/mrl/orp/ and is released
under a BSD-like license.

  Neil

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Re: http://www.ora.com/news/vhll_1299.html

2001-07-10 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Sam Tregar wrote:

[...]
 On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Adam Turoff wrote:
 Um, that's not what the article was talking about  The proposal is to use
 an XML syntax to program in existing VHLL languages, including Perl.
 This would supposedly allow programmers to embed drawings as
 documentation

my first thought was,

=pod for xml
resource
  image
source
  visio3000.png
/source
  /image
/resource
=cut



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http://dev.perl.org/

2001-07-07 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

Hi,

A while ago Nathan wrote some more information about Perl6 and I
finally got around to modernize the dev.perl.org site (so it uses
mason and mod_perl now) and put it on.

  http://dev.perl.org/
  http://dev.perl.org/perl6/architecture
  http://dev.perl.org/perl6/status

I also copied the Apocalypses and the Exegesis over from perl.com to
the new site here.

Some stuff has been moved around, but all the old links should still
work.


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Re: perl 6 mailing lists status

2001-05-28 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Sun, 27 May 2001, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:

 perl6-all - Current mega-subscription list.  (What mailing lists does this 
 cover, and how is that determined as lists come and go?)  In use.

perl6-all is subscribed to all other perl6-.*@perl.org lists.
 
 perl6-language-unlink - Originally chaired by Nathan Wiger.  unlink().  
 Closed.  No archive, although there is a link to one.

it's already closed. I don't think it ever got used. At least, I
can't find any postings.
 
 perl6-meta - The catchall list chaired by Nat Torkington.  In use.

it's not catch all, it's for mails like these. :-)
 
 perl6-porters - A mailing list from Topaz days.  Freeze (if we want to 
 parallel p5p for maintenance and porting post Perl 6 delivery.).  Last post 
 was 15 Feb 2001.

hmpfr, it's not supposed to be alive.
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00200.html
 
 Michael Schwern's perl-qa is also on the list, and seems to be included in 
 perl6-all, although his stated goal (and the current traffic) isn't Perl 6 
 specific - hence the name.

Correct.
 
 The current page should probably break the lists up into two (or three, if 
 Frozen is acceptable) sections, for the current and closed lists.  Ask, I 
 can send you a revamped page after the details have been worked out (barring 
 Warnock's Dilemma).

That'd be great.

Please edit http://dev.perl.org/working-groups.txt (and if needed
http://dev.perl.org/build-wg-list.pl).
 
:)

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the list archives ...

2001-05-14 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


... at http://archive.develooper.com/?M=D should now be updating
again. :-)


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Re: list logs?

2001-05-06 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Sun, 6 May 2001, Dan Brian wrote:

 Logs on archive.develooper.com for p6l and p5p haven't been written to
 since 4/27. I assume somebody is already looking at it, or updates are
 scheduled for longer periods than before?

I haven't had time to get them updating again since I moved the
perl.org mail to the new box.

real soon now, real soon now.

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[meta] perl.org mail, ftp.cpan.org, www.perl.org and so on...

2001-04-30 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


In the next hour or so we will be moving the box hosting
ftp.cpan.org, cpan.valueclick.com, (perl|cpan).org mail,
www.cpan.org, www.perl.org and so on to the rack next to the one
it's in now. The downtime should be less than 10 minutes, but now
you are forewarned in case I hit the 110V/230V switch while we move
it or something.

:-)

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perl.org cpan.org mail

2001-04-28 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


Ack.

For quite a while I've had the project of getting everything on
tmtowtdi.perl.org moved to a new box called onion. The CPAN foo I'm
hosting was moved a while ago and www.perl.org has been running on
onion ever since I started hosting it at ValueClick, so those sites
were not affected.

Earlier today tmtowtdi had to be moved to a new rack, and when they
turned it on again it didn't quite feel like booting.

So, it got moved from the datacenter to it's current place behind my
desk and I got it started. Instead of just getting it running,
changing DNS, going home and hoping for the best, I took the
opportunity to get stuff moved to onion. It seems like we have all
data in good shape, and if not there's the nightly backups.

perl.org and cpan.org mail is running again and all queued mail from
the secondary MX has been processed. I will open up the websites
that were on tmtowtdi in a few minutes.

bugs.perl.org is not running as it will require some coordination
with Richard or more work than I can bother to do right now. So,
please don't blame Richard for perlbug being down. It's all my
fault.

Also, the people who had accounts to update the sites and whatnot on
tmtowtdi doesn't have access to onion (yet). If they'll please mail
me, then I'll get them set up again.

There's probably some other stuff missing that I forgot about right
now. Please mail me and let me know.

The good part is that the new box is much faster, not running some
ancient Linux and have RAID-5. So you can now receive both perl6-all
and p5p faster than you can start a tail on your mail log after
posting.


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eaten approximately 2 tons of mini snickers and not much else
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string concatenation operator - please stop.

2001-04-26 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


To me this whole thing looks like bike shedding at it's worst at
this point. Please stop and read this

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAINTING

and possibly this

 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=506636+517178+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-hackers/19991003.freebsd-hackers

before writing more on the subject, huh?


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Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1)

2001-04-18 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Tim Bunce wrote:

[...] 
 That beautiful code will be beautifully _open_ to _external_ extensions.
 And that is how I imagine that Perl 5 support should be implemented.

Exactly.  I am pretty sure that already at the meeting in Monterey
someone suggested that Perl5 should be the first test of the
language extension mechanism.


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Re: Apocalypse 1 from Larry

2001-04-05 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, A. C. Yardley wrote:

   16  bdb  Keep default Perl free of constraints such as warnings and strict.
   73  adb  All Perl core functions should return objects
 ^
 [...]
 I might at some point add a ``d'' for Deferred, if I really think it's
 too soon to decide something.
 
 is already in effect?

No. Read again. The two first flags was an a-f "grade".


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Re: State of PDD 0

2001-02-21 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:

 I have created perl6-announce-pdd. Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 for clues.

by the way, Adam Turoff was kind and volunteered to take the PDD
archive pumpkin like he was handling the bazillion RFC's.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] will thus go to him now. Be sure to buy him an
extra beer or three at TPC[1].


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Re: RFC archive?

2001-02-21 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Matthew Cline wrote:

 What's the URL for the RFC archive?

always try google first.

  http://www.google.com/search?q=perl6+rfc+index

 would have let you straight to http://dev.perl.org/rfc/


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Re: C Garbage collector

2001-02-21 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Alan Burlison wrote:

 Alan Burlison wrote:
 
  I've attached the HTML
 
 Well it was there when I sent it... does this list strip attachments or
 something?

yes, it does. It is usually just misconfigured mailers or spam.

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Re: State of PDD 0

2001-02-20 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:

   Ask, all, are we reusing perl6-rfc as the submittal address, or will there
   be a new one (perl-pdd)?
 
 I'm in favour of renaming to reflect the new use of the list.  Dan?
 
 I've been thinking since I sent my last mail on this that we might actually 
 want to leave the two (PDD  RFC) separate. Keep on with the RFCs for 
 'external' things, and PDD for the actual internals implementation of things.

I have created perl6-announce-pdd. Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
for clues.

How should the submission process work? As for the RFC's?


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Re: State of PDD 0

2001-02-20 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:

 On Tuesday 20 February 2001 17:38, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
  
  I have created perl6-announce-pdd. Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  for clues.
  
  How should the submission process work? As for the RFC's?
 
 Can you confirm the actual submission address?  Are we using perl-pdd? And 
 did we want to make this Perl 6 specific, or Perl generic (like perl-qa is)?

Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] after sending the (unnumbered) PDD to
perl6-internals and I will add it to the list.

Will be changed when the PDD traffic gets higher.


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Re: Auto-install (was autoloaded...)

2001-02-16 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Stephen P. Potter wrote:

 Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and "Branden" [EMAIL PROTECTED] whisp
 ered:
 | For the list managers: Could we have a list apart from -language, so that we
 | don't bother all with this `par'-issue ??? Please?  Perhaps a list that
 | includes the issue on directory structure, and other issues related to
 | installation and deployment of Perl itself and Perl programs  modules.
 
 How about a perl6-install list?  This discussion really doesn't fit into
 any of the current top level lists, so we can make a new top level and
 cover other installation issues as well.  Ask, can you make this, if the
 name is agreeable.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] already exists. 
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/


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Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists (04--11 Feb 2001)

2001-02-15 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Simon Cozens wrote:

[...] 
 To you, and to everyone else who has asked, yes. I'm working on setting
 up a list right now, hosted at netthink. It's currently subscribable, but
 there are some teething problems with posting. (Which needn't concern you,
 except that if you subscribe right now, you'll see a flurry of test posts for
 a while.)
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the magic address; at some
 point in the near future, I might move the perl5-porters digest there as
 well.

-digest has a specific meaning with many mailing list managers. I
would suggest calling it perl6-summaries or such to avoid confusion.



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Re: Mail problems? [simon@cozens.net: Re: Now, to try again...]

2000-12-18 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Simon Cozens wrote:

 This is the fourth time I've sent this mail to perl6-internals-api-parser,

I've seen it on the list at least twice.

 but it doesn't seem to be arriving. None of my other mail is affected, and
 perl5-porters is, for once, behaving itself; why this list in particular? 

Send me the log snippets from your mailserver successfully
delivering the mail to one of the perl.org mx'es and I can look
after it.

If it was before the weekend, don't bother though. The 70MB's I have
for qmail logs rotate pretty quickly.

So maybe this is better: Next time you think it happens, send me a
mail right away and I can look into it.

(perl.org haven't ever dropped mail since I started taking care of
it as far as I know. Are you sure that you'll receive bounces, your
envelope sender is often changing).


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Re: Proposal for groups

2000-12-03 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Casey R. Tweten wrote:

 Today around 1:16pm, Ask Bjoern Hansen hammered out this masterpiece:
 
 : On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Simon Cozens wrote:
 : 
 :  On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 09:23:42PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
 :   perl6-internals-design is for a team of no more than 10 people. 
 :   
 :  And we decide those ten... how? :)
 : 
 : The ~ten who thinks they have the skills and dares to step forward
 : and volunteer?
 
 What if you feel you can obtain the skills, with out too many of those
 process delaying questions, and still be and asset?

You can optain the skills in the process and exercising them on the
perl6-internals list.
 
 Of course, that would mean that 10 slots would not be enough, no
 doubt.


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Re: Proposal for groups

2000-12-03 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Simon Cozens wrote:

 On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 09:23:42PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
  perl6-internals-design is for a team of no more than 10 people. 
  
 And we decide those ten... how? :)

The ~ten who thinks they have the skills and dares to step forward
and volunteer?


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Re: Fwd: ezmlm response

2000-11-15 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, David Grove wrote:

 Out of curiosity, is majordomo deprecated?

yes.

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[off-topic] perl.org server name

2000-11-14 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

hi,

this is a little off-topic, so PLEASE answer privately; I'll sum up
in a day or three.

I'm getting a new box to replace the current hardware running
tmtowtdi.perl.org (perl and cpan.org mail, ftp.perl.org,
www.cpan.org and other stuff), so I need a Perlish name for it.
Reusing the same name will introduce more trouble than I have time
for, so I need a new name so I can start moving services over.

Send suggestions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A name we'll use will be awarded
with 2 years FREE subscription to as many of the public @perl.org
mailinglists as (s)he wants!

=)


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ps. impatience, laziness and hubris are not cool names since we're
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Re: The new api groups

2000-11-14 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, David Grove wrote:

 I'm very surprised to see planning groups for api and parsing for perl6
 springing up, with goals of providing RFC's in nine days. 

The "deadlines" has never been a implicit mark where work would have
to stop, but just a date for when the chair (or whoever) should stop
up, breathe, see if the group is getting anywhere and either shut it
down or change something if not.

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new lists. perl6-internals-api-*

2000-11-13 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


Subscribe by sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For
example [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the
first list.

More information at http://dev.perl.org/lists


CHAIR: Dan Sugalski
WORKING GROUP: perl6-internals-api-extensions
DEADLINE: Nov 24, 2000
MISSION: Develop the API for perl 6 extensions
DESCRIPTION: This group is charged with developing the API perl
presents to extensions. This group should develop an RFC for this,
as well as a header file, stub source, and as a few rough test
programs.

CHAIR: Dan Sugalski
WORKING GROUP: perl6-internals-api-embed
DEADLINE: Nov 24, 2000
MISSION: Develop the API for perl 6 embedders
DESCRIPTION: This group is charged with developing the API perl
presents to embedding programs. This group should develop an RFC for
this, as well as a header file, stub source, and as a few rough test
programs.

CHAIR: Dan Sugalski
WORKING GROUP: perl6-internals-api-parser
DEADLINE: Nov 24, 2000
MISSION: Develop the API for the perl 6 parser
DESCRIPTION: This group is charged with developing the API for the
perl 6 parser/lexer/tokeniser. This group should develop an RFC for
this, as well as a header file, stub source, and as a few rough test
programs. The parser will be written in perl.

CHAIR: Dan Sugalski
WORKING GROUP: perl6-internals-syntax-tree
DEADLINE: Nov 24, 2000
MISSION: Develop the syntax tree structure for perl 6
DESCRIPTION: This group is charged with developing the structure of
the syntax tree (or HIR, if you'd prefer that term) that the perl 6
parser hands off to the bytecode compiler, optimizer, and execution
engine.



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Re: Now and then

2000-10-11 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Adam Turoff wrote:

[..]
 titled - RFC ## (v#): Add XYZ into Perl.  That traffic is also easy
 to find in the archives.
 
 That will probably be less of an issue with a strong lack of RFC
 activity during the implementation phase.  It very well could be
 that anyone doing serious work is going to subscribe to perl6-all,
 and the perl6-* lists exist for those who just want to listen.

Yes, I agree. And for those who are trying to do something the
implicit rough sorting in topics the different lists give are also
helpful. Or so it is for me.


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RE: Continued RFC process

2000-10-10 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, David Grove wrote:

[public voting] 
 Good? Bad?

as someone who in a former life was part of creating news groups and
such I can only say bad things about "public voting" in an
environment like this. It just doesn't work and just doesn't measure
anything useful.

If you can answer 

  Who should be able to vote and why?
  How do you control that only those people vote?

then we can move on to the next obstacles. There is plenty to go.
The whole concept is just flawed. Votes like this is in best case
just a skewed opinion poll.

Besides, we already got consensus that we don't like it some months
ago on the bootstrap list.

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RE: RFC 346 (v1) Perl6's License Should be (GPL|Artistic-2.0)

2000-10-03 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, David Grove wrote:

[...]
 I don't know, it just doesn't feel like the holes are closed. How do we let 
 people "nab it and do good things with it", but prohibit people from "nabbing 
 it and doing bad things with it"?

Personally I don't care. For all I care anyone can do all the bad
and evil with it they want to, as long as they don't prevent me or
others from doing good things with it. If the "bad people" make
something useful after all, hey great - more useful software for us!
If they don't, well... who cares then?


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new list: perl6-internals-unicode

2000-09-26 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen



CHAIR: Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WORKING GROUP: perl6-internals-unicode
CHAIR: Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DEADLINE: Oct 28, 2000
MISSION: Develop a consistent vision of how perl should
handle unicode (and all character data) internally.
DESCRIPTION: This group's mission is to get perl 6 a solid
foundation to handle unicode data. This includes how perl
handles character and binary data internally, as well as
how it presents that data to external code. (Including
binary extensions and embedding apps)

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Re: I think the AL needs a rewrite

2000-09-11 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Ben Tilly wrote:

[...]
 Sorry, I thought most would be familiar with this story.

Sorry, I misinterpreted what you said as the usual "BSD-like
licenses are evil, just see what Microsoft did with Kerberos".


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Re: new list: perl6-source-control@perl.org

2000-09-08 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:

   List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
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eh, that would be [EMAIL PROTECTED] of course.

Thanks to Michael G Schwern for increasing my clue'o'meter.


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new list: perl6-source-control@perl.org

2000-09-08 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


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  Deadline: 18 September 2000
  Mission: To decide the source control system (Perforce, CVS, etc)
  to be used for perl6 development.

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Re: RFC 39 (v3) Perl should have a print operator

2000-09-08 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Bart Lateur wrote:

 Those are not the semantics of print.   It returns true (1) if successful, and
 false (undef) otherwise.  You cannot change that.  If I write print "0", it
 bloody well shan't be returning false.
 
 Oh, why not? Does anybody actually *ever* check the return value of
 print? I think it's not as if we'd break a lot of code.

uh, what? you don't do much socket programming now, do you? sockets
breaks all the time. Disks runs out of space while you write to
files. and so on and so on.

 Problem is: if you need defined() to see if the print was succesful, you
 cannot return what was printed as well. It's one thing or the other. So
 you cannot have it both ways.

I really don't understand why you want to have what's printed. If
you need it in a variable, you can just make the variable first and
then print.


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Re: RFC 39 (v3) Perl should have a print operator

2000-09-08 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On 8 Sep 2000, Chaim Frenkel wrote:

  Oh, why not? Does anybody actually *ever* check the return value of
  print? I think it's not as if we'd break a lot of code.
 
 ABH uh, what? you don't do much socket programming now, do you? sockets
 ABH breaks all the time. Disks runs out of space while you write to
 ABH files. and so on and so on.
 
 Could someone enlighten this poor soul and tell me what I _can_ do
 with an error return from a print or close?

rollback transactions to the database, flag the thing you tried to
do as something that should be retried, close and reopen the socket
connection and try again, send a mail to the NOC that the world is
on fire, etcetera, etcetera ...

Tim always refers to
http://search.cpan.org/doc/TIMB/DBI_Talk4_2000/sld024.htm
 
 Reporting it may be useless (disk full).

eh? I like to get someone aware of it so the problem can be fixed. I
also like my application to stop doing whatever it tried to do and
if possibly know what it didn't do so it can try it again later.
 

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Re: code repository

2000-09-06 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:

[...]
 Also, what if people want to learn how the source system works on their own,
 and experiment with it?  With only 100-user license, we are pretty tight as
 to who can do that.  There are probably more than 100 people on the various
 perl6 mailing lists who'd want to at least experiment with the system on
 their own.

there's a built-in 2-client license you can play with if you just
download the daemon from perforce. 

Also the number 100 was just a semi-random number I picked when I
faxed the license request. I could as well have written 1000 I'm
sure.


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Re: Message ID's?

2000-09-04 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Bart Lateur wrote:

 My suggestion, plain and simpl: add a custom header with the
 assigned message ID.

it's in the envelope sender which all decent delivery agents will
put in some header for you. (commonly the Return-Path header).


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Re: Perl 6 announcement list

2000-09-03 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Nathan Torkington wrote:

 Yes.  I hadn't envisaged the sheer number of RFCs, and hence the
 traffic on the announcements list.
 
 Perhaps we rename perl6-announce to perl6-announce-rfc, then create a
 new perl6-announce (with all the subscribers of the rfc list) to hold
 mailing list and project status reports?

yes, I have been thinking the same thing.

If noone objects in the next few days I'll go ahead and do it.

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new list: perl6-meta@perl.org

2000-08-23 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen

Hi,

I've created [EMAIL PROTECTED] which will take over the
discussions currently on bootstrap. The subscription list WILL NOT
be transferred to the new list, but perl6-all is subscribed of
course. If you are not at perl6-all you might want to subscribe to
perl6-meta by sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The new list will be closed for postings for a few days. Then I'll
close the bootstrap list and open perl6-meta for postings.


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new list: perl6-language-regex

2000-08-21 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


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LIST:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CHAIR:  Mark-Jason Dominus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MISSION:Draft and discuss RFCs related to regexp language
issues in Perl 6.  Report weekly to Language WG.
DEADLINE:   September 30th (semi-permanent sublist)


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mail filtering for perl6-all

2000-08-19 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


I added another header to the perl6-all mails. X-Mailing-List-Name
will contain the original list name, san -help and whatnot.

So the recommended procmail filter rule would now be:

:0:
* ^Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm
* ^X-Mailing-List-Name: \/(.*)
perl/$MATCH

or something like that.


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new list: perl6-language-data@perl.org

2000-08-18 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


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LIST:   perl6-language-data
CHAIR:  Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MISSION:Discuss and draft RFCS for Perl 6 language features
related to the Perl Data Language (PDL) and numeric
Perl in general.  Report weekly to the Language WG.
DEADLINE:   September 30th


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list changes: perl6-language-objects added, perl6-language-unlinkclosed

2000-08-15 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen


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LIST:   perl6-language-objects
CHAIR:  Nathan Wiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MISSION:Develop RFCs related to objects and OO programming in
Perl, possibly rationalising existing RFCs where they
cover the same ground.
DEADLINE:   As long as it takes.  Report fortnightly (first report
August 29th).


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