New user trying to compiler perl6 without success

2010-02-10 Thread Neil.Mowbray
Hi Folks, This is the first time I have tried to compile parrot and perl6. I have tried various combinations of perl6 and parrot snapshots but all perl6 builds fail (at different places). Can anyone help me get a clean build? For example getting the latest parrot from svn truck and perl6 from

Re: New user trying to compiler perl6 without success

2010-02-10 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi, neil.mowb...@calgacus.com wrote: Hi Folks, This is the first time I have tried to compile parrot and perl6. I have tried various combinations of perl6 and parrot snapshots but all perl6 builds fail (at different places). Can anyone help me get a clean build? For example getting the

RE: New user trying to compiler perl6 without success

2010-02-10 Thread Neil.Mowbray
Yes I tried the --gen-parrot and it had a similar problem. For the below, I did a clean svn checkout of parrot and git clone. For parrot I did $ perl Configure.pl $ make $ make fulltest $ make install $ make install-dev However that didn't copy cygparrot.dll to /usr/local/bin and the

Re: Gripes about Pod6 (S26)

2010-02-10 Thread Carl Mäsak
Austin (): I've been doing a bunch of NQP and PIR coding, where Pmichaud++ has been trying to support some kind of POD syntax. With the release of the S26 draft, he has tightened the parsing to follow more of the rules laid out in the spec, and after a few months, I've noticed that the trend

Re: Gripes about Pod6 (S26)

2010-02-10 Thread John Gabriele
Personally, I've always thought that Perl has a very natural feel to it, and deserves a doc markup format that's also natural: [Markdown] (and [Pandoc]'s Markdown has just the right additions, IMO). [Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ [Pandoc]:

Re: Gripes about Pod6 (S26)

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Overmeer
* John Gabriele (jmg3...@gmail.com) [100209 14:31]: [Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ [Pandoc]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ [reST]: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html Or, more Perl like: [OODoc] http://perl.overmeer.net/oodoc/

RE: New user trying to compiler perl6 without success

2010-02-10 Thread Neil.Mowbray
Using a clean git clone I went back and tried perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot which failed in a new way: /work/solon/neilmowbray/tool/foo/rakudo/parrot_install/src/2.0.0-devel/pmc/s ub.dump /work/solon/neilmowbray/tool/foo/rakudo/parrot_install/src/2.0.0-devel/pmc/u

RE: New user trying to compiler perl6 without success

2010-02-10 Thread Gerd Pokorra
Hi Neil, there exists already packages in cygwin for rakudo and parrot. Reini Urban put them in. I don't not know about the current version number. But rakudo and parrot should build out of the box under Windows. You don't need cygwin. The last time I build Rakudo under Windows I installed:

Re: Gripes about Pod6 (S26)

2010-02-10 Thread John Gabriele
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Mark Overmeer m...@overmeer.net wrote: * John Gabriele (jmg3...@gmail.com) [100209 14:31]: [Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ [Pandoc]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ [reST]: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html Or, more Perl

Re: Gripes about Pod6 (S26)

2010-02-10 Thread John Gabriele
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:31 AM, John Gabriele jmg3...@gmail.com wrote: Personally, I've always thought that Perl has a very natural feel to {snip} Gah. Sorry for the quasi-double-post. I posted on google groups, it didn't show up, then I jumped the gun and posted a similar message to the ML.

Re: New user trying to compiler perl6 without success

2010-02-10 Thread Will Coleda
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:00 AM, neil.mowb...@calgacus.com wrote: Alas I need a cygwin build. The cygwin parrot package is quite old at 0.8.1. I'm surprised to have such difficulty building under cygwin. It seems that parrot $ make install-dev isn't installing the Please note that

RE: New user trying to compiler perl6 without success

2010-02-10 Thread Neil.Mowbray
No, to scrapped all the old versions off (several times ...). -Original Message- From: Will Coleda [mailto:w...@coleda.com] Sent: 11 February 2010 00:15 To: neil.mowb...@calgacus.com Cc: Gerd Pokorra; perl6-compi...@perl.org Subject: Re: New user trying to compiler perl6 without success

r29675 - in docs/Perl6/Spec: . S32-setting-library

2010-02-10 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2010-02-10 18:10:26 +0100 (Wed, 10 Feb 2010) New Revision: 29675 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S09-data.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Containers.pod Log: [Spec] squash [;] fossils noticed by eternaleye++ Modified:

Re: Gripes about Pod6 (S26)

2010-02-10 Thread Jon Lang
John Gabriele wrote: Personally, I've always thought that Perl has a very natural feel to it, and deserves a doc markup format that's also natural: [Markdown] (and [Pandoc]'s Markdown has just the right additions, IMO). [Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ [Pandoc]:

Re: Gripes about Pod6 (S26)

2010-02-10 Thread Damian Conway
Carl observed: Partly that is because documentation isn't at the forefront of things that need to be implemented for Perl 6 to be useful, so it's kind of lagging behind the rest. Partly it's because Damian is the owner of that synopsis, and he practices a kind of drive-by-updating to it. As

Re: Gripes about Pod6 (S26)

2010-02-10 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:43:04PM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote: Second, POD is not XML, and it definitely isn't DOCBOOK. Why do I need magic reserved words like TOC and APPENDIX? I'm not writing a book, I'm writing code. And if I was writing a book, I wouldn't be dumb enough to write it in