Re: Issues With Creating Featherspec Archives

2011-10-24 Thread Peter Lobsinger
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Kevin Polulak wrote: > The problem I'm having is with recursively adding directories to an archive. > The libzip library provides a function called zip_add_dir() that is supposed > to do this. Unfortunately, it has no relation to the user's fileystem > outside the

Re: Issues With Creating Featherspec Archives

2011-10-24 Thread Jonathan "Duke" Leto
Howdy, Featherspec sounds awesome! I like the concept of "feathers". Where is the spec file format defined? I am not much help for your issue, but keep on tryin'. Duke On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Kevin Polulak wrote: > If any of you have been glancing at all the noise dalek has been maki

Re: Gleanings from the GSoC Mentor Summit

2011-10-24 Thread Jonathan "Duke" Leto
Howdy, Alvis: I bless you, as Community Manager, as our new Documentation Shepherd. We take our docs seriously. They *are* just important as code. We don't need your resume, you got the job :) Don't be afraid to hurt our feelings. We know our docs are not very accessible. Be brutally honest abou

Re: Gleanings from the GSoC Mentor Summit

2011-10-24 Thread Alvis Yardley
Hello: I'll offer to "take on" the documentation thing. The "Constructive Whining" document I've been working on, essentially,boils down to one thing: Documentation, to include gathering up and setting a torch to (well ..., at least properly archiving) all of the incorrect and so very, very

Issues With Creating Featherspec Archives

2011-10-24 Thread Kevin Polulak
If any of you have been glancing at all the noise dalek has been making, then you'll know that lately I've been doing a lot of work on Plumage. I've got a lot of really great plans for it. I've designed a "real" package format that Plumage will use and can fetch these packages - called "feathers" -

Re: Gleanings from the GSoC Mentor Summit

2011-10-24 Thread Jonathan "Duke" Leto
Howdy, I am at the Git Together 2011 right now, so I am time constrained. Documentation Shepherd: https://twitter.com/#!/parrotvm/status/128518846997999618 To clarify, I have been fiddling around with Buildbot, but I don't care too much about whether we use Jenkins of Buildbot. But we absolutely

Re: whiteknight/tt_1910 branch ready for testing

2011-10-24 Thread Andrew Whitworth
I just pushed a fix for this. It was a bit of a problem with pointers. This is the kind of issue I would have caught earlier if these "compile to C" tests would print out warnings as TAP diagnostic messages. I don't know how hard that would be to do, but if anybody with a p5 background has some spa

Gleanings from the GSoC Mentor Summit

2011-10-24 Thread Christoph Otto
Howdy, This weekend, dukeleto++ and I had the privilege of attending the GSoC Mentor Summit. The summit is a participant-run unconference for mentors of GSoC projects, by the hackers for the hackers, at Google's offices and on their dime. Both of duke and I picked up a treasure trove of ideas an