Re: Parrot 0.5.2 Released

2008-01-16 Thread François Perrad
Bob Rogers wrote: On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.5.2 P.e. nipalensis. Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. The Windows setup is available on http://parrotwin32.sourceforge.net/ with a perl6.exe for the

[perl #49828] [PATCH] Configure hanging on GNU m4 test under FreeBSD

2008-01-16 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Bruno # Please include the string: [perl #49828] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49828 --- osname= freebsd osvers= 5.5-release-p11 arch= i386-freebsd-64int cc= cc ---

Re: Perl6 spec test suite

2008-01-16 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:16:57PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:22:44PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: : Larry, Jerry, and I discussed this a couple of weeks ago : and here's my vision for how it should work. To simplify : things, let's break it into two parts: (1)

[perl #49276] [BUG] http://smoke.parrotcode.org/smoke/ failing to display submitted smoke report

2008-01-16 Thread James Keenan via RT
While the fix to my particular problem is simple enough, it is apparent that there's enough bit rot in tools/util/smokeserv-server.pl that it needs a refactoring. And since there are no unit/regression tests for this program, it's going to need a good phalanxing. Accordingly, I have created a

[perl #49828] [PATCH] Configure hanging on GNU m4 test under FreeBSD

2008-01-16 Thread Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT
Hi Bruno, I found parrot installer still hanging under FreeBSD (at least FreeBSD 5.5). Its's probably because OS name isn't properly separated. Could you test the patch from ticket 49780, http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49780 ? That patch looks like a more general solution.

Re: [perl #49828] [PATCH] Configure hanging on GNU m4 test under FreeBSD

2008-01-16 Thread Bruno
Hello 2008/1/16, Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Could you test the patch from ticket 49780, http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49780 ? That patch looks like a more general solution. I've testes it and works perfectly, thanks. Later I'll check it also against

[perl #49832] Error making parrot-0.5.2 in MacosX

2008-01-16 Thread Paco Linux
# New Ticket Created by Paco Linux # Please include the string: [perl #49832] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49832 Hi: I had this error with the 0.5.2 release and the latest snapshot (this is my

[perl #49836] [BUG] segfault in ascii_compare

2008-01-16 Thread via RT
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[perl #49780] [config] m4 doesn't hang, it does its job...

2008-01-16 Thread James Keenan via RT
Barney: auto::m4 is one of a small number of 'auto' config step classes for which I have *not* yet written any unit tests in t/steps/. So feel free to apply your combination of Simon's and your patches whenever you've resolved the issues that Bruno raised on list. You're guaranteed to have all

Re: Perl6 spec test suite

2008-01-16 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:38:32AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: : Nice. What about the cases where a test file defines its own local : wrapper functions to is, isnt, like, etc.? For example, Pugs' : t/builtins/math/sqrt.t has: : : sub is_approx (Num $is, Num $expected, Str $descr) { :

Re: Perl6 spec test suite

2008-01-16 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 09:18:17AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: : We could reserve all the is_* isnt_* ok_* names for that, I suppose. I've gone ahead and done that. Let me also reiterate here in public the basic underlying premise that fudge is only for fudging the tests, and a truly passing test

Re: [perl #49836] [BUG] segfault in ascii_compare

2008-01-16 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 07:03:02 Will Coleda wrote: Here's (a new, I think) segfault that partcl exposes (r24918) build tcl. %../../parrot tcl.pbc t/cmd_after.t t/cmd_after.t Segmentation fault FYI, this command line isn't expected to do anything useful at the moment; I'm only

[perl #49802] [TODO] tclsh binary segfaults.

2008-01-16 Thread Will Coleda via RT
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[perl #49846] [PATCH] test_more.pir does not export skip()

2008-01-16 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Mark Grimes # Please include the string: [perl #49846] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49846 It appears that runtime/parrot/include/test_more.pir does not export 'skip'. I'm not

Re: [perl #49846] [PATCH] test_more.pir does not export skip()

2008-01-16 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 08:49:43 Mark Grimes wrote: It appears that runtime/parrot/include/test_more.pir does not export 'skip'. I'm not sure if this was done on purpose, but I have not seen any issues when running tests with it exported. The attached (simple) patch fixes it. Thanks,

[perl #43335] [TODO] config/auto/revision.pm: Write unit tests

2008-01-16 Thread James Keenan via RT
I overlooked resolving this 2-1/2 months ago. It was effectively dealt with in: r22702 | jkeenan | 2007-11-04 11:09:27 -0500 (Sun, 04 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

Extending Parrot NCI callback functionality

2008-01-16 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
Right now, Parrot's support for NCI callbacks (C code calling back into PIR code) is relatively limited. In particular, there are at least the following limitations: 1. The return type must be void (C library does not expect a response). 2. The callback must have exactly two arguments (from

Rakudo.org is up live

2008-01-16 Thread Andy Lester
http://www.rakudo.org/ Right now it's just a blog, but we can add more more more. xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance