[perl #30188] Fix build on OS X

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Re: [perl #30118] [PATCH] Remove non-constant initializers in classes/*.c

At 10:59 AM -0700 6/8/04, Andy Dougherty (via RT) wrote: Sun's Workshop Compiler will not accept non-constant items in an initialzation. Before this patch, compilation of parrot would fail with lots of error messages of the form Applied, thanks. -- Dan

Re: [perl #30119] [PATCH] Better default for PARROT_ICU_DATA_DIR.

At 11:08 AM -0700 6/8/04, Andy Dougherty (via RT) wrote: This patch makes it at least theoretically possible for 'make languages' to work. Without this patch, you have to manually set the environment variable PARROT_ICU_DATA_DIR to the correct directory. As is indicated in the comments, this is

Re: [perl #30095] [PATCH] Update required build tools in README

At 1:19 PM -0400 6/9/04, Andy Dougherty wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, chromatic via RT wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 03:53, Nicholas Clark wrote: The work around for (2) could be to bundle File::Spec 0.87 from CPAN. For that matter the work around for (1) could be to bundle Math::BigInt from

My Phalanx lightning talk

So I'm giving an LT on Phalanx next week in Buffalo. Anything in particular y'all think I should mention? xoxo, Andy To: Andy Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Your Lightning Talk Your proposal for a Lightning Talk at the 2004 YAPC::America::North has been accepted. topic: Join the Phalanx

Re: My Phalanx lightning talk

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:27:09AM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: So I'm giving an LT on Phalanx next week in Buffalo. Anything in particular y'all think I should mention? A brief discussion of Phalanx, a project devoted to increasing the testing coverage of Perl and the key modules on the

Re: My Phalanx lightning talk

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 03:35:23PM +0100, Nicholas Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Well, how people acn help, particularly how they can help even if they don't think they have time to be *the* one true hoplite for a project. I'm thinking that maybe instead of people picking a module to do, and

Re: [perl #30095] [PATCH] Update required build tools in README

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 10:28, Dan Sugalski wrote: If we've a good reason to keep the compatibility wiht 5.005, I'd like to do so. OTOH, if there's no good reason I'm fine with tossing it. IIRC at least one reasonably modern Unix ships with 5.005 as its base perl, but I don't remember which

Re: [perl #30188] Fix build on OS X

At 2:26 AM -0700 6/10/04, Nicholas Clark (via RT) wrote: Parrot has been broken on OS X for over a month now. The problem is that the libnci test requires the libnci dynamic library to be built, and the top level Makefile only has rules to generate libnci.so and libnci.dll. On OS X this library is

Re: [perl #30095] [PATCH] Update required build tools in README

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Dan Sugalski wrote: If we've a good reason to keep the compatibility wiht 5.005, I'd like to do so. OTOH, if there's no good reason I'm fine with tossing it. IIRC at least one reasonably modern Unix ships with 5.005 as its base perl, but I don't remember which one. (If

Re: My Phalanx lightning talk

Andy, I agree, it an intimidating idea to think that you have to take on responsibility for a whole module. I enjoyed working on the DBI tests, and when I next have some spare time between projects, I plan on helping again, either with DBI or some other module. You should really encourage that

Basics of the base PMC class set

Just to let everyone know, I'm going to make a few minor changes to the repository over the next day or so. In addition to what's hopefully a sane example of using morph (which, granted, has a somewhat limited useful range, but...) I'm going to formally establish a basic set of parrot PMC

Re: Basics of the base PMC class set

All~ Speaking of basic PMC types, I remember a bunch of basic array PMCs that were discussed recently, some for each register type, some which autovivified, some which didn't etc. I believe that a stringarray was actually inserted (although currently it just extends perlarray). I currently

Re: C/C++ White-Box Unit Testing and Test::More

Ovid wrote: For white box testing C code, I just use assert(). assert() is ok, but ok() is better. :-) I will prolly roll my own custom ok() macro, so instead of: assert(x==y); I can write: ok(x==y, test that x equals y); Writing a lot of tests, I want to be able to easily label each test.

Next Apocalypse

Now that Apocalypse 12 is out, which one is Larry going to work on next? Joe Gottman