Re: whiteknight/imcc_interfaces branch ready for testing

2011-01-24 Thread Peter Lobsinger
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Andrew Whitworth wrote: > The whiteknight/imcc_interfaces branch is ready for general testing. > It implements a series of cleanups for the IMCC interface functions, > and should preserve most existing functionality. These changes are the > basis for additional wo

whiteknight/imcc_interfaces branch ready for testing

2011-01-24 Thread Andrew Whitworth
The whiteknight/imcc_interfaces branch is ready for general testing. It implements a series of cleanups for the IMCC interface functions, and should preserve most existing functionality. These changes are the basis for additional work I am doing in this area. Major changes include: * the PIR and P

Re: Stability of PCT, PGE, NQP, PIR for HLL development

2011-01-24 Thread Ville Koskinen
(Sorry, this got off the list by accident.) On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:38 -0500, "Andrew Whitworth" wrote: > > Embarassing silence ensues, because I didn't keep a record of where > > exactly I found or didn't find the information > > No problem. I am getting the sense that we need to focus attention

Re: Stability of PCT, PGE, NQP, PIR for HLL development

2011-01-24 Thread Andrew Whitworth
These are all great questions, let me do my best to answer them. > I > have a few of questions, which either have conflicting answers in > existing documentation, or are not addressed anywhere. Some of our documentation has fallen behind. If you tell me where you were looking and what conflictin

Re: Stability of PCT, PGE, NQP, PIR for HLL development

2011-01-24 Thread Ville Koskinen
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:49 +0100, "Moritz Lenz" wrote: > But notice that even if NQP stays stable, your programs can still break > if you call API methods that change. Well, is that API going to be stable any time soon, or will it continue to evolve? I'm guessing the latter... I don't have anythi

Re: Stability of PCT, PGE, NQP, PIR for HLL development

2011-01-24 Thread Moritz Lenz
Am 24.01.2011 13:08, schrieb Ville Koskinen: 1. How stable are PCT, PGE and NQP? (Or is it just NQP nowadays?) In other words, if I start writing an HLL implementation today for Parrot 3.0.0, will the implementation still work on Parrot 4.0? NQP is fairly stable. It's a (mostly) subset of Perl

Stability of PCT, PGE, NQP, PIR for HLL development

2011-01-24 Thread Ville Koskinen
Hello all, I've been reading Parrot documentation and tutorials, and taken a look at some of the HLL implementations, in order to decide if I have the resources and skills to implement an HLL on top of Parrot. I've browsed through the archives of this mailing list from the past year as well. I hav