Re: tutorial, blog, hackathon

2008-04-03 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Joshua McAdams wrote: > > > > > > > The dorms that we have this year have large common areas that we have > > > > 24x7 access too. I can investigate them more if I need too. > > > > > > This would be excellent. If t

Re: tutorial, blog, hackathon

2008-04-03 Thread Allison Randal
Joshua McAdams wrote: > The dorms that we have this year have large common areas that we have > 24x7 access too. I can investigate them more if I need too. This would be excellent. If the hackathon is the weekend before YAPC::NA, will the dorms and common areas be available then? (I.e., w

Re: tutorial, blog, hackathon

2008-04-03 Thread Allison Randal
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 03:22:28PM -0500, Joshua McAdams wrote: Allison wrote: Also, we're planning a hackathon the weekend before YAPC::NA, June 14-15, for core hacking, language implementation, and cage cleaning. The YAPC::NA wiki [1] currently says that the hackat

Re: Deprecated integer type IDs

2008-04-03 Thread Allison Randal
Will Coleda wrote: Allison Randal wrote: Will Coleda wrote: The current tickets involve removing: - type* vtables I'm not sure what you mean by this. These four VTABLE entries are deprecated. INTVAL type() INTVAL type_keyed(PMC* key) INTVAL type_keyed_int(INTVAL key) INTVAL type_keye

Re: tutorial, blog, hackathon

2008-04-03 Thread Joshua McAdams
> > The dorms that we have this year have large common areas that we have > > 24x7 access too. I can investigate them more if I need too. > > This would be excellent. If the hackathon is the weekend before > YAPC::NA, will the dorms and common areas be available then? > (I.e., would I be abl

[perl #49224] [BUG] Repeated problems with 'svn commit'

2008-04-03 Thread James Keenan via RT
Since I have not experienced this problem in > 1 month, and since it's better dealt with by notifying Robert and having him track it in his RT queue, I am going to cross my fingers and close this ticket.

[perl #45137] [TODO] Add a revision control test in Configure.pl

2008-04-03 Thread James Keenan via RT
Assuming we take the course of action described in RT 52154, this ticket will be closed.

[perl #40830] [PATCH] Man-Chicken's awesome hackathon throw-away patches...

2008-04-03 Thread James Keenan via RT
No comments since March 16, so I'm closing the ticket.

[perl #52054] [CAGE]: Make all PDDs conform to coding standards

2008-04-03 Thread James Keenan via RT
Did more work on this tonight. This is a test that, in a certain sense, will probably never pass completely because there will always be oddball lines that have to exceed 78 characters. So it will probably never go into 'make test'. It is interesting to note that there are extensive stretches of

[perl #52464] perl6's --combine and --each options aren't documented

2008-04-03 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Matt Kraai # Please include the string: [perl #52464] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=52464 > Howdy, According to languages/perl6/perl6.pir, the --combine and --each options are suppo

[perl #52154] [RFC] Remove check for repository revision number

2008-04-03 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Sat Mar 29 14:27:53 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Remove the commented-out code and +1 from me. > > -- c > The attached patch removes the commented-out code. Coke: Since I originally proposed this patch, other folks have made modifications to lib/Parrot/Revision.pm which head in a d

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r26707 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2008-04-03 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 14:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > =head3 Directives used for Parrot calling conventions. > > +{{ A bit of a radical idea, but now would be the time to decide on this: > + Remove the whole "long-style" invocation syntax altogether. > + Only allow the short version.

Re: YAPC::EU 2008

2008-04-03 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 22:34 schrieb Will Coleda: > Can we get an idea of how many parrot hackers are planning on > attending YAPC::EU this year? (will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on > 13-15 August 2008.) > > http://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/ It's very likely that I'll be there. "Parro

Re: [perl #43102] t/pmc/threads.t tests 5,7 fail with --gc=libc

2008-04-03 Thread Mark Glines
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:40:20 -0700 "Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fr. 01. Jun. 2007, 08:42:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > While testing/trying to fix RT #42938, I noticed an additional test > > failure in t/pmc/threads.t. Test 7 crashes with a signal 11 > > (segme

Re: [perl #51464] [TODO] [PDD] add date stamps to PDD's

2008-04-03 Thread Mark Glines
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:18:47 -0700 "James Keenan via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Datestamps in the filename (e.g., MMDD)? Or somewhere inside the > file? > > Wouldn't the former create repository problems? Couldn't the latter be done automatically with an $Id$ tag? Mark

[perl #51464] [TODO] [PDD] add date stamps to PDD's

2008-04-03 Thread James Keenan via RT
> > It would be very helpful to me if the PDD's had date stamps. They > evolve and I'm never sure that I'm not reading one that is seriously > out of date. > Datestamps in the filename (e.g., MMDD)? Or somewhere inside the file? Wouldn't the former create repository problems?

[perl #52054] [CAGE]: Make all PDDs conform to coding standards

2008-04-03 Thread James Keenan via RT
I began working on this today and noticed that many PDDs lack a SYNOPSIS section -- and they do quite well without it. I recommend relaxing the requirements in docs/pdds/pdd00_pdd.pod and t/codingstd/pdd_format.t that each doc have SYNOPSIS section. All opposed say "Nay!" within next 24 hours! k

Re: YAPC::EU 2008

2008-04-03 Thread Bernhard Schmalhofer
Will Coleda schrieb: Can we get an idea of how many parrot hackers are planning on attending YAPC::EU this year? (will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 13-15 August 2008.) http://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/ Another "I'm not sure whether I can make it" from me. Is there enough critical

[perl #52454] [PATCH] t/compilers/imcc/syn/regresssions_2 divide by zero

2008-04-03 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #52454] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=52454 > The test in t/compilers/imcc/syn/regressions_2.pir is failing, at least on SPARC, with

S12 edits on Methods

2008-04-03 Thread John M. Dlugosz
"If you declare an explicit invocant for an Array type using an array variable..." Suggest: " The invocant may be given a sigil other than the C<$> "item" sigil using the same rules as binding variables to class types as described in S02 under "Names and Variables". For example, if the class do

Re: YAPC::EU 2008

2008-04-03 Thread Jonathan Worthington
Will Coleda wrote: Can we get an idea of how many parrot hackers are planning on attending YAPC::EU this year? (will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 13-15 August 2008.) http://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/ I am actually a maybe at this point. It's very likely I'll be there. Jonathan

Re: [PATCH] Re: [perl #52288] [install] undefined reference to `Parrot_set_executable_name', linking failed

2008-04-03 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, chromatic wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2008 06:26:40 Andy Dougherty wrote: > > > This very minimal patch at leasts gives a brief warning about the issue. > > > +# Parrot can't necessarily handle a pre-existing installed shared > > +# libparrot.so. At this point, w

[perl #46519] [BUG] t/stm/runtime.t test failures

2008-04-03 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Thu Apr 03 04:33:27 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Reopening ticket per posting from Seneca Cunningham in RT 52416. Issue > of TODO item is still unresolved. I got these results on Linux: ok 1 - choice (one thread) ok 2 # SKIP Intermittently failing everywhere ok 3 # SKIP Intermittently fai

Re: [perl #52416] [BUG] Test 4 of t/stm/runtime.t sigbus on ppc

2008-04-03 Thread James E Keenan
Seneca Cunningham wrote: # New Ticket Created by "Seneca Cunningham" # Please include the string: [perl #52416] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=52416 > The ticket referred to in the prove -v output was reso

[perl #46519] [BUG] t/stm/runtime.t test failures

2008-04-03 Thread James Keenan via RT
Reopening ticket per posting from Seneca Cunningham in RT 52416. Issue of TODO item is still unresolved.

[perl #52416] [BUG] Test 4 of t/stm/runtime.t sigbus on ppc

2008-04-03 Thread Seneca Cunningham
# New Ticket Created by "Seneca Cunningham" # Please include the string: [perl #52416] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=52416 > The ticket referred to in the prove -v output was resolved last year. prove -v o

Re: muse on Compact Structs, pack/unpack

2008-04-03 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
Or you could setup pmwiki as a nod to our perl6 compiler pumpking :-) In any case, pmwiki is simpler to setup than twiki. cheers, -Scott On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 07:03:46PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: > > During ANSI/ISO

[svn:parrot-pdd] r26707 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2008-04-03 Thread kjs
Author: kjs Date: Wed Apr 2 14:16:53 2008 New Revision: 26707 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd19_pir.pod Log: [pdd19] add some more proposals to pdd19; it will be reviewed shortly (I heard), so this is the chance to put in ideas. Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd19_pir.pod ===