Re: 3.8.0 Release Preparations

2011-09-19 Thread Andy Lester
On Sep 19, 2011, at 11:16 PM, Kevin Polulak wrote: > Alright, it is officially Tuesday (EST). That means NO MORE COMMITS TO > MASTER! Nothing! Nada! Phooey. First time I look at Parrot in over a month, and I do it wrong. I just committed https://github.com/parrot/parrot/commit/ba4bd62fd6ff8

Re: 3.8.0 Release Preparations

2011-09-19 Thread Kevin Polulak
Alright, it is officially Tuesday (EST). That means NO MORE COMMITS TO MASTER! Nothing! Nada! For the most part, we are passing all tests on several platforms using at least gcc, g++, or clang with the exception of OpenSolaris. I forgot I had that VM and decided to run a few tests at the last minu

kill-useless-defaults branch

2011-09-19 Thread Peter Lobsinger
About a week ago, I sent out an RFC about getting rid of some of the vtables on default.pmc. To that end, the kill-useless-defaults branch was created. The first vtable removed was get_pointer(), which I feel is enough of a change (and slight breakage) to require a merge into master before further

Re: 3.8.0 Release Preparations

2011-09-19 Thread NotFound
> Thanks for that report, Matt. I saw a very similar error when I tried > to remove the threading subsystem entirely in a branch. I saw the same > failures as you are seeing, but not initially. This suggests to me > that some recent modifications and cleanups in the Timer PMC and > elsewhere might

Re: 3.8.0 Release Preparations

2011-09-19 Thread Andrew Whitworth
Thanks for that report, Matt. I saw a very similar error when I tried to remove the threading subsystem entirely in a branch. I saw the same failures as you are seeing, but not initially. This suggests to me that some recent modifications and cleanups in the Timer PMC and elsewhere might have creat

Re: 3.8.0 Release Preparations

2011-09-19 Thread Matthew Boyle
On 16/09/11 03:38, Kevin Polulak wrote: If you do encounter any test failures, make some noise here on parrot-dev and on #parrot. I've been seeing consistent errors in t/pmc/timer.t when building --without-threads: (with GCC) or <