Re: fix for parrot build error

2011-05-15 Thread James E Keenan
On 5/15/11 3:58 PM, Tom Christiansen wrote: $icushared =~ s/\s\\c\s?/ /g; Applied in commit 351378a: Apply correction suggested by Tom Christiansen for TT #1722. Tom, please re-test. If still failing, can you add to TT #1722? Thanks. ___ h

Re: three days to Parrot 3.4.0

2011-05-15 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 04:28:47PM +0200, Gerd Pokorra wrote: > In three days is the release day of Parrot 3.4.0. The checkout and tag > for it will be at 2011-05-17 07:00 UTC. To convert UTC to your local > time execute: > > $ date -d '2011-05-17 07:00 UTC' Note the apparent Darwin build proble

Re: NCI 't' parameter type removed; no replacement?

2011-05-15 Thread Peter Lobsinger
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Kevin Tew wrote: > Byte strings, the former 't' NCI type, are as primitive a data type as int > is for libraries written in C. > I think some of Jonathan and Patrick extreme surprise is that we are making > the extremely common use of C byte strings more laborious

Re: Parrot Developer Summit, May 14 2011: Summary

2011-05-15 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:10:49AM -0400, James E Keenan wrote: > C. Relationship Management > Policy: The Parrot project will designate two people to serve as > managers of our relationship with Rakudo, our principal HLL client. > Rakudo will do likewise. The relationship managers should be each

Re: NCI 't' parameter type removed; no replacement?

2011-05-15 Thread Kevin Tew
Byte strings, the former 't' NCI type, are as primitive a data type as int is for libraries written in C. I think some of Jonathan and Patrick extreme surprise is that we are making the extremely common use of C byte strings more laborious to use than they were in the past. The whole point of

Re: NCI 't' parameter type removed; no replacement?

2011-05-15 Thread Donald Hunter
Hi, I raised my concern about the removal of NCI signatures breaking Zavolaj on 27 April. I received what I felt was a very curt response from Peter suggesting that: "PCRE's pcre_compile function also makes use of pass-by-reference. This binding has been updated to the new API and makes a good re

fix for parrot build error

2011-05-15 Thread Tom Christiansen
The file parrot/config/auto/icu.pm contains this code: # on MacOS X there's sometimes an errornous \c at the end of the # output line. Remove it. # see TT #1722 $icushared =~ s/\s\\c\s/ /g; That isn't good enough, because some of the strings you do that to actually *end* in

Parrot Developer Summit, May 14 2011: Summary

2011-05-15 Thread James E Keenan
A Parrot Developer Summit (PDS) was held online in #parrotsketch starting on Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 2100 UTC. Here is a summary; please post corrections to this thread on parrot-dev. Full log: http://irclog.perlgeek.de/parrotsketch/2011-05-14 I. Evaluation of progress since preceding PDS

Re: three days to Parrot 3.4.0

2011-05-15 Thread François Perrad
2011/5/14 Gerd Pokorra > In three days is the release day of Parrot 3.4.0. The checkout and tag > for it will be at 2011-05-17 07:00 UTC. To convert UTC to your local > time execute: > > $ date -d '2011-05-17 07:00 UTC' > > -- Gerd > > > I just see 2 regressions since the previous release. 1)

Re: three days to Parrot 3.4.0

2011-05-15 Thread François Perrad
2011/5/15 François Perrad > > > 2011/5/14 Gerd Pokorra > >> In three days is the release day of Parrot 3.4.0. The checkout and tag >> for it will be at 2011-05-17 07:00 UTC. To convert UTC to your local >> time execute: >> >> $ date -d '2011-05-17 07:00 UTC' >> >> -- Gerd >> >> >> > > I just se

Re: NCI 't' parameter type removed; no replacement?

2011-05-15 Thread Andrew Whitworth
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >> TT #2035 already gives an upgrade path. > > I vehemently disagree with the notion of "upgrade path" implied by this > response and the ticket. We're obviously not going to get anywhere arguing yuh-huh/nuh-uh over and over again. For t

Re: NCI 't' parameter type removed; no replacement?

2011-05-15 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 01:37:48PM -0400, Peter Lobsinger wrote: > It is clear you want a level of stability not afforded by following > HEAD rather than the supported releases. Perhaps Rakudo would be best > to revise its decision to do so (and implicit associated agreement to > increased risk of

Re: NCI 't' parameter type removed; no replacement?

2011-05-15 Thread Peter Lobsinger
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 09:53:10PM -0400, Peter Lobsinger wrote: >> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Patrick R. Michaud >> wrote: >> > I also notice that according to api.yaml the UnManagedStruct type >> > is deprecated and eligible f

PDS Material: We need a "documentation" team leader

2011-05-15 Thread Jonathan "Duke" Leto
Howdy, Parrot really needs somebody that wants to help improve Parrot documentation. This includes: 1) Making sure new features have adequate (and friendly!) documentation 2) Making sure deprecation changes are fully documented and useful to HLL and library authors 3) Finding volunteers to transl

Parrot Developer Summit, May 14 2011, 2100 hours: Agenda proposal

2011-05-15 Thread James E Keenan
Here is a proposal for the agenda for the Parrot Developers Summit (PDS) to be held in #parrotsketch on Saturday, May 14 2011, 2100 hours. I. Evaluation of Results Since Jan 29 22011 PDS A. Roadmap Goals: did we meet them? B. What else did we accomplish since last PDS? II. Scheduling of next Pa