Managing breakages across Rakudo versions

2012-07-04 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
Switching over to the 'nom' branch of Rakudo introduced a large number of regressions and changes that affected many users of Rakudo. I know all of the core developers agree that this was really not a good thing, and we want to work very hard to avoid such instabilities in the future. Ideally a

Re: [perl #113992] [BUG][STAR] Cygwin build of parrot for rakudo star fails because of missing phony.exe

2012-07-04 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 06:22:32PM -0700, Ron Schmidt via RT wrote: > > > > http://ftp.parrot.org/releases/devel/4.5.0/parrot-4.5.0.tar.gz > > > > If you can explode this tarball and build Parrot under Cygwin then > > I agree it's a Star issue. Otherwise, I'd want to get an upstream > > fix

Re: [perl #113992] [BUG][STAR] Cygwin build of parrot for rakudo star fails because of missing phony.exe

2012-07-04 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 01:07:34PM -0700, Ron Schmidt wrote: > The file isn't a real executable and doesn't do much, so copying > t/tools/install/testlib/phony to t/tools/install/testlib/phony.exe > effectively got me around the problem. Since the error is caused by > untarring Rakudo Star I do

[perl #113992] [BUG][STAR] Cygwin build of parrot for rakudo star fails because of missing phony.exe

2012-07-04 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Ron Schmidt # Please include the string: [perl #113992] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=113992 > Parrot's Config.pl fails during Check Manifest looking for t/tools/install/testli

[perl6/specs] f89105: [S32]: Remove 'm' (complex) modifier from sprintf...

2012-07-04 Thread GitHub
Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: f891058937e546d1a57139b72496d19813b438e0 https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/f891058937e546d1a57139b72496d19813b438e0 Author: pmichaud Date: 2012-07-04 (Wed, 04 Jul 2012) Changed paths: M S32-setti

[perl #113990] [BUG] Strange error message when calling an optional & parameter that wasn't bound in Rakudo

2012-07-04 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #113990] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=113990 > "invoke() not implemented in class 'Callable'" -- now *that's* a new one! r: su

[perl #113988] [BUG] Null PMC access when doing .fmt on the return value from .reals

2012-07-04 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #113988] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=113988 > r: say (3+4i).reals.fmt("%d %d") # for flussence++ rakudo 61a3ad: OUTPUT«Nul

[perl #113984] [BUG] cygwin make install fails copying some documentation

2012-07-04 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Ron Schmidt # Please include the string: [perl #113984] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=113984 > In cygwin the CP make variable is defined as /bin/cp rather than "$(PERL) -MExtUt

[perl6/specs] 0ebf6a: get rid of Container fossil

2012-07-04 Thread GitHub
Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: 0ebf6ac36f6efae9ecd931f2bccfcf76991dfd2c https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/0ebf6ac36f6efae9ecd931f2bccfcf76991dfd2c Author: Moritz Lenz Date: 2012-07-04 (Wed, 04 Jul 2012) Changed paths: M S10-pa

Re: Perl6 grammars -- Parsing english

2012-07-04 Thread Lard Farnwell
Hi Moritz, Thanks that was interesting. My investigation into grammars took a while but here are the results thus far: > Grammar rules and regexes are just methods… I hadn't thought about what a grammar and rule actually was before. This inspired me to try: --- grammar

(incorrect) POD in Perl 6

2012-07-04 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi, as I am going over the POD of all the modules handled by Panda I found a few tags that I wonder if they are correct: =head(without a number) in uri/lib/URI.pm in november/lib/November/URI.pm =cut (I think this is a Perl5-ism) in bioperl6/lib/Bio/RangeI.pm and many other