Re: languages/ Cleanup
Nicholas Clark wrote: Would this be resolved by entries in the ChangeLog? In Perl5 the version control history is added to a Changes file, which has each commit message along with the perforce revision number. It makes it very easy to search for these sorts of things. I assume that it's trivial to automate the generation of such a file for subversion, if it's desired. It's really not a big deal. 99.99% of the time when you 'svn delete' something, it's because you don't need it anymore. That's true here too. There's a good chance that if/when we get around to a PGE/TGE implementation of Forth, the old implementation won't even be useful. :) Allison
Re: languages/ Cleanup
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 03:08:29PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: > Robert Spier wrote: > > > >Nothing is actually _deleted_ from SVN... it just gets harder to > >find. So it'll be there later if you want it. > > Aye, I wasn't afraid it would disappear forever. But the old "What was > that deleted path I'm looking for, and what revision should I sync back > to?" makes it just hard enough to find stuff that it's preferable to > keep a copy elsewhere. Would this be resolved by entries in the ChangeLog? In Perl5 the version control history is added to a Changes file, which has each commit message along with the perforce revision number. It makes it very easy to search for these sorts of things. I assume that it's trivial to automate the generation of such a file for subversion, if it's desired. Nicholas Clark -- I'm looking for a job: http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/CV.html
Re: languages/ Cleanup
Robert Spier wrote: Nothing is actually _deleted_ from SVN... it just gets harder to find. So it'll be there later if you want it. Aye, I wasn't afraid it would disappear forever. But the old "What was that deleted path I'm looking for, and what revision should I sync back to?" makes it just hard enough to find stuff that it's preferable to keep a copy elsewhere. Allison
Re: languages/ Cleanup
Matt Diephouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If no one has any objections, I'll remove these towards the end of the week or during the weekend. This is done as of r12807. -- matt diephouse http://matt.diephouse.com
Re: languages/ Cleanup
> I was going to suggest keeping an archive of this one outside the > repository, but it's only 2 files, so I'll just keep a copy for > myself. (I'd like to revive it at some point in PGE/TGE and the old > implementation could be useful.) Nothing is actually _deleted_ from SVN... it just gets harder to find. So it'll be there later if you want it. -R
Re: languages/ Cleanup
Matt Diephouse wrote: - languages/forth/ I was actually the last one to provide a patch to forth (there were some other commits that modified things like copyright info, but those don't count). That was 20 months ago. The implementation was horribly dated then and things are far worse now. It needs to be reimplemented in order to work. This was dan's beast; I'm sure he won't care if it's removed. I was going to suggest keeping an archive of this one outside the repository, but it's only 2 files, so I'll just keep a copy for myself. (I'd like to revive it at some point in PGE/TGE and the old implementation could be useful.) - languages/ruby/ This doesn't appear to have had any work done on it in the past 3.5 years. It's nothing more than a (partial?) Parse::RecDescent grammar. Its author is no longer involved with Parrot. It's doubtful that what's here would be of any use to anyone now. The Ruby implementation moved out to RubyForge, so this can be deleted. (And even the external implementation needs to be updated.) Allison
languages/ Cleanup
In an effort to keep the source tree nice and tidy, I'd like to propose that we remove the following languages from the Parrot source tree: - languages/conversion/ This was added more than 3.5 years ago. It's supposed to be a BNF to Perl6 Rules translator. I don't think its ever been used, and I couldn't figure out how to work it (I got errors when I tried using any of the examples). - languages/forth/ I was actually the last one to provide a patch to forth (there were some other commits that modified things like copyright info, but those don't count). That was 20 months ago. The implementation was horribly dated then and things are far worse now. It needs to be reimplemented in order to work. This was dan's beast; I'm sure he won't care if it's removed. - languages/miniperl/ This hasn't seen any development in 4 years. The author is no longer involved with Parrot. With punie and perl6, I don't see why we need it. - languages/ruby/ This doesn't appear to have had any work done on it in the past 3.5 years. It's nothing more than a (partial?) Parse::RecDescent grammar. Its author is no longer involved with Parrot. It's doubtful that what's here would be of any use to anyone now. If no one has any objections, I'll remove these towards the end of the week or during the weekend. -- matt diephouse http://matt.diephouse.com
