RE: Naming debate- what's the location for it?

2018-02-20 Thread Eaglestone, Robert J
Thank you for your insightful comment Vijay. You’re right. Perl6’s evangelists will typically be current Perlers who are running up against Perl5’s limitations. So I think you’ve circumscribed the issue: what is Perl6 for? * Perl6 could be “better than Go” for microservices – IF it’s

RE: Naming debate- what's the location for it?

2018-02-09 Thread Eaglestone, Robert J
I think a name change is too radical. And yet. I think Steve has a point, though I don’t know what to do about it. The developers in my little corner of the world may not be up on the new-language-of-the-week, but even they see Perl as a has-been, write-only language, so when their brain

RE: Naming debate- what's the location for it?

2018-02-08 Thread Eaglestone, Robert J
* What's the counter word for computer languages, anyway? -mai? As an abstraction from paper printouts? From: Brent Laabs [mailto:bsla...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2018 2:51 PM To: Aaron Sherman Cc: yary ; Perl6

Re: [perl #130689] rapid network interaction crashes something

2017-02-02 Thread Robert Lemmen
d it, with the "say" line it works, without the say the server exits. no message, but this time I checked the exit code which is 141 consistently across multiple runs. perhaps that helps a bit... regards robert -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com

Re: [perl #129228] [SEGV] concurrent network access segfaults in libmoar.so

2016-09-09 Thread Robert Lemmen
rakudo and moar much more than get this working. thanks robet -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

2015-09-02 Thread Robert Strahl via perl6-users
I don't understand why some people feel so strongly that one-liners should be strict. That would undermine what a one-liner is — a quick way to get something done. I use perl5 one-liners very frequently for text processing, especially when stringing / piping together shell code. When I need to

Re: [perl #71454] AutoReply: Method 'prime' not found for invocant of class 'Integer'

2009-12-29 Thread robert strahl
Please delete this obsolete ticket. Use [71456] instead. - Original Message From: perl6 via RT perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org To: robert_str...@yahoo.com Sent: Sat, December 19, 2009 7:51:54 PM Subject: [perl #71454] AutoReply: Method 'prime' not found for invocant of class

[perl #57568] [PATCH][Lua] 4 bugfixes for the Lua language and test cases.

2008-08-03 Thread Robert G. Jakabosky (via RT)
# New Ticket Created by Robert G. Jakabosky # Please include the string: [perl #57568] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=57568 I have separated the bugfixes into different patch files and included one

[perl #57504] [PATCH][Lua] Fixed 64bit bug in Lua bytecode decoder/translator.

2008-08-02 Thread Robert G. Jakabosky (via RT)
# New Ticket Created by Robert G. Jakabosky # Please include the string: [perl #57504] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=57504 Hello everyone, This is my first patch to the parrot project

recent svn issues

2008-02-02 Thread Robert
Dear parroteers- A small number of people have reported periodic issues committing to the parrot subversion repository. As of yet, we've been unable to create a repeatable test, find anything obviously wrong that might be causing this issue, or even logs that show a horrible error on our side.

prototype-based language under parrot

2007-11-30 Thread Robert Lemmen
.sub _other_meth :method print in other_meth\n .end and to store the variables in some hash and access them via a C callback. does not look right to me. so i am looking for suggestions or pointers on how to implement such a language in PIR, any help welcome! thanks robert

Re: Small tweak to Pmc2c.pm

2007-05-24 Thread Robert Wilkinson
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:38:11PM -0400, Bob Rogers wrote: Content-Description: message body text This reports unknown method names when generating C code for PMCs. WDOT? Is this the right place for it? Should it die instead of warn? -- Bob Rogers

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r13551 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-02-05 Thread Robert Wilkinson
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:31:17PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: larry Date: Tue Jan 30 12:31:16 2007 New Revision: 13551 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod Log: Braino spotted by TSa++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod

perlbug (and parrotbug) upgrade

2006-07-04 Thread Robert Spier
Finally, the moment you've all been waiting for is here! perlbug (http://rt.perl.org/rt3/) has been upgraded to the latest and greatest version (RT 3.6). Here are some changes you might notice: - a new shiny look - no more auth.perl.org, we now authenticate directly from bitcard.org - a

Re: languages/ Cleanup

2006-05-27 Thread Robert Spier
I was going to suggest keeping an archive of this one outside the repository, but it's only 2 files, so I'll just keep a copy for myself. (I'd like to revive it at some point in PGE/TGE and the old implementation could be useful.) Nothing is actually _deleted_ from SVN... it just gets harder

Info from Devel::Cover

2006-05-11 Thread Kirrily Robert
the thing that generates the coverage reports currently is C code or something? So isn't there anything CPANish to do this? K. -- Kirrily Robert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://infotrope.net/

Re: svn links for the Architecture section on the website?

2006-04-23 Thread Robert Spier
Given the recent explosion of svn commits in the synopses, and the fact that the versions of the synopses on the dev.perl.org/perl6 site are lagging a bit, would it make sense to add a link to the svn site to the Synopses page? I'd rather not. The ones on the dev site shouldn't have been

Re: libparrot.so.0.4.2

2006-03-25 Thread Robert Spier
(If so, as a bit of background it's discussed at the bottom of #38217 on RT, and I tried to put together a patch in r11320 but I caused some breakage so it's been backed out. I need to revive it) Thank you, Nick. How do I get a username and password for RT? http://auth.perl.org/ or just

Re: Trends in Code Quality

2006-03-01 Thread Kirrily Robert
I'm with Aristotle. I think it's an urge that's come out of the development community -- specifically, *certain* development communities -- rather than from an end-user desire for quality. Many of the best -tested pieces of software are the infrastructure type things that only developers

Re: [perl x38598] [TODO] PIR Examples, Libraries, and Tests - Migrate to New Subroutine Attributes

2006-02-26 Thread Robert Spier
Applied in 11755, 11756, and 11758. (Ticket not closed; I don't have permission.) You shouldn't say things like that. You have permission now. -R (pulling an Audrey.)

Re: Subversion Server Downtime

2006-02-24 Thread Robert Spier
Upgrade complete. You shouldn't notice anything different, except some operations might be faster. -R At Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:25:22 -0800, Robert Spier wrote: FYI - At some point later this week, or maybe this weekend, I will be taking the perl.org Subversion server down to move

Subversion Server Downtime

2006-02-21 Thread Robert Spier
FYI - At some point later this week, or maybe this weekend, I will be taking the perl.org Subversion server down to move it to different hardware. This most likely won't happen until after the imminent Parrot release. From an end user perspective, nothing should change. (Although we are

svn performance

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Spier
snapshots or releases. And, since a checkout takes about an hour (last time I checked) I tend to be too lazy to fetch one just to make a patch. Only if you're checking out to a Commodore 64. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp$ time svn co http://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk parrot-trunk /dev/null real

Re: svn performance

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Spier
Sigh. I wish it were that simple, or that funny. $ time wget http://cvs.perl.org/snapshots/parrot/parrot-latest.tar.gz real0m16.84s user0m0.09s sys 0m0.20s $ time svn co http://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk parrot-trunk real 2:01:50.3 user 1:02.0 sys44.9

SKIP blocks and the debugger

2006-01-09 Thread Kirrily Robert
Does anyone else find that SKIP: { } blocks bugger up the debugger? I'll be happily bouncing on the n key to get to round about the vicinity of the failing test, and then blam, it sees a skipped test and just fast-forwards to the end. K. -- Kirrily Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Svn Commit list...

2005-12-31 Thread Robert Spier
... seems to be dead for about a day now, though I know commits are going through. Fixed. BCCing webmaster at perl dot org, where this will hopefully open a ticket. THANK YOU. This meant the message got seen much earlier than it otherwise would, and because of the BCC, no collateral

blocked mime types

2005-11-05 Thread Robert Spier
No, it isn't. =) The mail list strips out .t attachments (Robert? is this necessary?) We don't strip .t We strip troff attachments. Really, it's a bad mailer that is labeling the .t file a troff mime-type. I've removed the troff types from the bad mime list. -R

Re: Parrot 0.3.0 TODO

2005-10-03 Thread Eaglestone, Robert J
are defunct, and I should be looking at RT instead. Any suggestions and preferences? Robert

Re: merge release

2005-09-28 Thread Robert Spier
We've actually done a merge. It is complete. All committed changes on the leo-ctx5 branch are now on trunk as of rev 9260. The leo-ctx5 branch was deleted as rev 9261. If you have any checkouts of the leo-ctx5 branch, you will need to switch them to trunk cd

Re: PXPerl 5.8.7-4 released with Windows binaries of Pugs 6.2.9

2005-09-17 Thread Robert
What happened to the Pixigreg site? I have not been able to get to it for a while now. Robert

Re: Why are we adding more kwalitee tests?

2005-09-09 Thread Robert
thing until I started reading the Perl Testing notebook that just came out. It would not stop me from uploading though. I would either ignore it or strive to get my kwalitee higher. I did not look at any kwalitee levels for the modules that I have installed. I need 'em, so I use 'em. Robert

Re: PXPerl 5.8.7-4 released with Windows binaries of Pugs 6.2.9

2005-08-09 Thread Robert
Grégoire Péan wrote: Sorry Gmail hid your last email Robert. I installed PXPerl. When I go to install DBD::SQLite I get make errors and it won't install. Since I have never dealt with this on Windows, do I talk to the PXPerl guy(s) or the DBD::SQLite guy? I am guessing that DBD::SQLite

Re: Modules::Starter question

2005-08-09 Thread Robert
Dave Cross wrote: On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:32:45AM -0400, Robert wrote: I am creating my first module (finally) and I was told a while ago to use Module::Starter. Which I did. I am fine there. When I look at the code generated I see that all the POD stuff is inline while I prefer to see POD

Re: PXPerl 5.8.7-4 released with Windows binaries of Pugs 6.2.9

2005-08-08 Thread Robert
Just started here and I found PXPerl. What are the benefits of this over the ActiveState version? Robert

Re: PXPerl 5.8.7-4 released with Windows binaries of Pugs 6.2.9

2005-08-08 Thread Robert
*nix friendly)? Robert

Re: PXPerl 5.8.7-4 released with Windows binaries of Pugs 6.2.9

2005-08-08 Thread Robert
or Windows (or a combo of them). Robert

Modules::Starter question

2005-08-06 Thread Robert
fine with that and will continue to chug along. If not, I will move it to the end and I would make a request to the M::S author to have a command line switch added to indicate which POD style to use (defaulting to whatever the auther wishes of course). Thanks! Robert

Re: failure notice

2005-08-06 Thread Robert
I just saw that this morning. I have no idea where that email address came from as that is a real old address. I will have to check my settings when I get back to work. Robert On 8/6/05 6:03 AM, in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

Re: Modules::Starter question

2005-08-06 Thread Robert
Thanks for the answers. Robert

Re: [PATCH] Perl 6 FAQ

2005-07-26 Thread Robert Spier
[1 text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)] On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 11:53:01AM -0700, Robert Spier wrote: Thanks, applied. Thanks! However, the rendered form is still of an old revision: http://dev.perl.org/perl6/faq.html It was still in my staging copy. It should be up now. -R

Re: [PATCH] Perl 6 FAQ

2005-07-24 Thread Robert Spier
Thanks, applied. At Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:39:42 +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote: [1 text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)] Below is a patch to remove the first QA from: http://dev.perl.org/perl6/faq.html

RE: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-07 Thread Jones Robert TTMS Contractor
When I go to the donation page and attempt to make a donation, the drop-down box does not give DBI as a valid recipient. Is it possible several people may not have donated as they noticed the same results, or maybe they did and it all went into the Perl Development Fund instead?

Re: Website still refers to 0.2.0 as latest version

2005-06-18 Thread Robert Spier
Updated. (Sorry for the delay.) -R At Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:18:38 +0100, Roger Browne wrote: By the way, the website http://www.parrotcode.org/ still refers to 0.2.0 as the latest version. Regards, Roger Browne

Re: [PATCH] More t/p6rules tests

2005-05-19 Thread Robert Spier
The list server keeps eating my attached homework. Won't let me attach a .t file. This is because your mailer is declaring it to be an application/x-troff file.

Re: Building a module with tests

2005-05-09 Thread Robert
Andy Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:43:53AM -0400, Robert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Go look at Module::Starter. Seems it is not available as a PPM for ActiveStates Perl distro. Please don't let that be an impediment. Install

Re: Building a module with tests

2005-05-08 Thread Robert
On 5/6/05 1:50 PM, in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:43:53AM -0400, Robert wrote: Andy Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 10:12:14AM -0400, Robert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote

Re: parrotcode.org needs some updating

2005-05-08 Thread Robert Spier
Leopold Toetsch wrote: http://www.parrotcode.org/resources.html still has CVS and CVS instructions mentioned. Please replace it with equivalent SVN hints. ... which are at http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html Updated. As always, patches for this kind of thing are welcome. (You can

Re: Building a module with tests

2005-05-06 Thread Robert
Andy Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 10:12:14AM -0400, Robert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there an article on the current best practices about creating a module with tests? I know there is h2xs but I somewhere in the back of my foggy

Building a module with tests

2005-05-05 Thread Robert
is the best place to ask and I will re-direct my question. Robert

Re: Favicon.ico for http://www.parrotcode.org

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Spier
I noticed that the favicon.ico for http://www.parrotcode.org is a Camel. Can we have a Parrot for that, in order to do the many non-Perl Parrot based languages justice? Good idea. I've put one in place. If someone wants to make a nicer one, I won't kick and scream too much. -R

Re: Takers wanted - a perl job

2005-05-01 Thread Robert Spier
Robert Spier wrote: Doesn't work when svk is used to check out the copy. But in that case svk list -R does. Hmm. Maybe this should be a commit action and not a test. It was under CVS. I'm pretty sure everyone ignored it there :) Well, it always depends, how responds looks like

forced manifest check

2005-04-16 Thread Robert Spier
Well, it always depends, how responds looks like: Committed revision 1234 * ATT MAINFEST ERROR missing bla.bla ... * This is very similar to what it did under CVS, although maybe not quite as big. Anyway, if this is

Re: Welcome to the land of Subversion

2005-04-13 Thread Robert Spier
At Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:07:05 -0400, Roger Hale wrote: Robert Spier wrote: Could that be added as 4th line? Good ideas, all of them. I've updated the page to add that, and to switch to bz2. -R Following Nicholas Clark: bzcat svk-mirror-dump.bz2 | svnadmin load --ignore-uuid ~/.svk

Re: Takers wanted - a perl job

2005-04-13 Thread Robert Spier
Doesn't work when svk is used to check out the copy. But in that case svk list -R does. Hmm. Maybe this should be a commit action and not a test. It was under CVS. I'm pretty sure everyone ignored it there :) -R

Re: Welcome to the land of Subversion

2005-04-12 Thread Robert Spier
Could that be added as 4th line? Good ideas, all of them. I've updated the page to add that, and to switch to bz2. -R

Re: [svn:parrot] rev 7800 - trunk/t/perl

2005-04-11 Thread Robert Spier
Fixed hopefully. $ find -name '*.t' | xargs svn ps svn:mime-type text/plain $ svn ci ... Yes, that'll fix it. Probably worth checking the mime-types for all the other files. and that dam.. check in runs for more then 10 minutes now Ick. The network pipe is a little congested today, and

Re: CVS going away

2005-04-10 Thread Robert Spier
I've disabled all CVS write permissions as part of the transition. (Yes, this means wheels are turning.) CVS will stay readable, but un-writable until tomorrow morning, when I hope to announce SVN being up. The import is running while I sleep. I caught I minor issue halfway into the previous

Welcome to the land of Subversion

2005-04-10 Thread Robert Spier
The conversion is done. http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html Have fun! If there are issues, let me know, and I'll fix em when I get back. Everyone who could commit before, should be able to commit now. If you find things slow, it's because everyone is trying to check out at once. -R

Re: Welcome to the land of Subversion

2005-04-10 Thread Robert Spier
The conversion is done. http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html Have fun! Sweet! Is there any particular reason why everyone should use https? Shouldn't http do for non-committers? Or am I nitpicking here? Not really. http is fine for non-committers. But it was easier to just document

CVS going away

2005-04-09 Thread Robert Spier
I've disabled all CVS write permissions as part of the transition. (Yes, this means wheels are turning.)

Some ideas (was Re: How to force tests to issue NA reports?)

2005-04-08 Thread Robert Rothenberg
I'm all for something like this, though I prefer requires_libraries instead. (Listing libraries distinct from applications is a grey area, so best to put them under one term.) Come to think of it, why not recommends_libraries too? What is needed is some standard set of library and application

Re: How to force tests to issue NA reports?

2005-04-08 Thread Robert Rothenberg
Same here. On 08/04/2005 20:02 Ken Williams wrote: On Apr 8, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: die NA: $reason; Since, at the moment, we're having trouble putting together a system to cover the possible reasons for an NA report let the module author figure it out. Its simple and

Re: Monthly Release Schedule

2005-04-07 Thread Robert Spier
It was on parrotcode or dev.perl.org at some point. Maybe that can be reused? Our tinderbox.perl.org volunteer is working on it. We've been nudging him, and he's got some cool stuff going on.

Subversion in the wings

2005-04-07 Thread Robert Spier
Due to popular demand, among many other reasons, parrot will be switching to Subversion at some point in the next few days. I've placed a test conversion at https://svn.perl.org/parrot-test/ (It mirrors the state of the CVS repository as of this morning.) Please take a look at it, and make

Re: Subversion in the wings

2005-04-07 Thread Robert Spier
Any questions? I assume current committer bits will be transitioned over too? Actually, this would be a great time to get signed committer agreements from everyone. But, since that probably isn't going to happen, I'll just move over all the bits. -R

How to force tests to issue NA reports?

2005-04-06 Thread Robert Rothenberg
Is there a way tests to determine that a module cannot be installed on a platform so that CPANPLUS or CPAN::YACSmoke can issue an NA (Not Applicable) report? CPANPLUS relies on module names (e.g. Solaris:: or Win32::) but that is not always appropriate in cases where a module runs on many

design docs on dev.perl.org -- Re: + or +

2005-04-03 Thread Robert Spier
The definitive answer is + -- the pod document at http://dev.perl.org/perl6/synopsis/S03.html is out of date. This has been corrected in the perl6 svn repository for some time (http://svn.perl.org/perl6/doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod), but I don't know the magic for getting updates in the svn

Re: Talk: Why You Really Want To Write Tests

2005-03-29 Thread Robert
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 06:28:21PM +, Adrian Howard wrote: PS O'Reilly will have a small book soon ? Oh yeah, that's the developer's testing notebook Ian Langworth and chromatic are working on. On slide 13:

Re: Module::Phalanx100

2005-03-21 Thread Robert Rothenberg
This isn't a bundle. It just provides a list of modules, though I guess something could parse the Bundle::Phalanx, thanks. On 20/03/2005 23:43 Andy Lester wrote: On Mar 20, 2005, at 4:18 PM, Robert Rothenberg wrote: FYI, I've uploaded Module::Phalanx100 to CPAN in to $CPAN/authors/id/R/RR/RRWO

Module::Phalanx100

2005-03-21 Thread Robert Rothenberg
FYI, I've uploaded Module::Phalanx100 to CPAN in to $CPAN/authors/id/R/RR/RRWO/Module-Phalanx100-0.01.tar.gz It simply contains a list of the Phalanx distributions from the project web site at http://qa.perl.org/phalanx/. It's provided so that anyone who needs a consistent list can use it

Re: Module popularity

2005-03-15 Thread Robert
cpanratings.perl.org? Ian Langworth wrote: Fair enough. On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:37:26 -0600, Andy Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd rather it didn't. What people think of as popularity is not what Phalanx measures. Let's not stir the mud.

Re: [perl #xxxxx] [PATCH] garbage characters in a comment

2005-03-09 Thread Robert
Indeed curious. The first version was the gzip file, but utf8 encoded. Double weird that it would only happen once. Did you do it the same way both times, Jarkko?

Re: Phalanx matchups

2005-02-03 Thread Robert
specifically and Perl as well. Robert

Re: Phalanx article now live

2005-01-24 Thread Robert
be about a level 4. I am also on Windows (work) and OSX (home). How can I help? Robert

OSCON Call For Proposals Now Open

2005-01-21 Thread Robert Spier
From: O'Reilly Conferences [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OSCON Call For Proposals Now Open Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:30:03 -0800 The Call for Proposals has just opened for the 7th Annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2005/ OSCON is headed back to friendly,

Re: CIA

2005-01-13 Thread Robert Spier
Parrot is now listed on CIA (insert-at-point (spook)) Ooo. spook's phrasebook is strictly US-ASCII. That's totally CIA-compatible, isn't it? Probably. But they're still after those computer criminals. And folks who use laser pointers. -R

CIA

2005-01-12 Thread Robert Spier
Parrot is now listed on CIA http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/parrot This will track all future commits, making them available as a RSS feed, etc. This slows down commits a little because of some work the script does to try and merge requests. I can tweak a little if people start noticing a

Re: Fwd: Out of Office Contact

2004-12-22 Thread Robert Spier
Mr. Cowgill's computer did not send such a message to the list. (It's not in the archive.) He sent it to you directly. -R At Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:27:51 -0800 (PST), Ovid wrote: OK, everyone send Mr. Cowgilll a polite message letting him know that, in the future, he needs to not send these

Re: svn

2004-12-08 Thread Robert Spier
While I personally like the idea, I think it is unlikely given how much slower svn is on sizable repositories. Of course I have not tried it recently, so maybe that has changed... All that being said, I am in absolutely no position of authority about this... This is, and always has been,

Re: RT Ticket Summary

2004-11-18 Thread Robert Spier
I'd like to see: ... http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/parrot/Overview.html

Re: Streams and Filters (Ticket #31921)

2004-11-07 Thread Robert Spier
(In my opinion, the line-ending issue isn't a problem for Parrot in terms of this test--it's legitimate to expect that you can process a particular file, not matter what platform you happen to be on, and no matter if the file happens to have been created on another platform.) Also, the proper

libjit

2004-10-25 Thread Robert Spier
Is there anything that can be learned/reused from libjit? http://www.southern-storm.com.au/libjit.html -R

Re: [perl #32118] [PATCH] Update of documentation

2004-10-24 Thread Robert Spier
Maybe there are some good links to Tinderbox or Bonsai or ViewCVS or they are only temporarily down, I don't know, but having non-functional references in documentation is not very good. Tinderbox is temporarily down. Either Zach needs to fix it, or I need to finish my replacement for it.

Externals in Repository (again) (was Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17)

2004-10-20 Thread Robert
I understand Dan's view that parrot should be 100% self contained, but I really think its silly to inline CPAN modules into our CVS repository. I have a compromise solution, which might satisfy Dan. 1. I create a new parrot-external-dependencies CVS repository. All external dependencies that Dan

Re: tinderbox

2004-10-13 Thread Robert
does anyone know what happend with http://tinderbox.perl.org? It is offline for quite some time now :-( It died as part of the meltdown of onion a while back. It's on the list 'o things to get back, but it hasn't gotten there yet. I'll go nudge and see what's up. Last I checked, Zach was busy

Re: No Autoconf, dammit!

2004-09-08 Thread Robert Schwebel
on about all available platforms today, configure written in sh - does proper cross compiler handling - c89 handling is no problem - everyone is used to configure/make/make install Robert -- Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schwebel | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science

Re: No Autoconf, dammit!

2004-09-08 Thread Robert Schwebel
:-) It seems to be a little bit strange to me that the ability to be compiled on prehistoric systems seems to be more important than a correct cross compiler environment. Robert -- Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schwebel | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry

Re: No Autoconf, dammit!

2004-09-08 Thread Robert Schwebel
script could be ... quiet nasty. Frameworked properly, however, such a script could work both for unknown and known targets. (Robert is likely screaming: Your re-inventing autoconf!!!) How did you know :-) It's just my experience that people normally start with thinking that they can do it much

Re: No Autoconf, dammit!

2004-09-08 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:23:36AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: No offense, but it *doesn't* *matter*. We're not using autoconf, as the subject of this thread makes clear. That's not negotiable. A really convincing argumentation. Robert -- Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schwebel | http

Perl5 Bug Summary

2004-09-07 Thread Robert Spier
[ We're down a handful this week... but not by much... thanks to Steve Peters for going through some of the old ones and identifiying things that can be closed. ] Perl5 Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/perl5/Overview.html Generated at Mon Sep 6 13:00:02 2004 GMT

Re: No-C, no programming project: Some configure investigation

2004-09-07 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 02:00:14PM +0200, Jens Rieks wrote: On Tuesday 07 September 2004 07:52, Robert Schwebel wrote: Would autoconf/automake be an option for the C part of parrot? No, its only available on a few systems. How do you mean that? You surely don't want to run the compiler

Re: No Autoconf, dammit!

2004-09-07 Thread Robert Schwebel
. Autoconf handles this for example with --host and --build, using CC and CC_FOR_BUILD in the Makefiles. I assume the variant you propose will have similar functionality? *) Configure probes environment How do you probe a cross environment? The build process will in this case run on i686. Robert

Re: No-C, no programming project: Some configure investigation

2004-09-06 Thread Robert Schwebel
to be really useful for coding, but anyway. Being able to use Perl on embedded systems would be pretty cool - it was never really possible with perl 5. Robert -- Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schwebel | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry Handelsregister

Cross Compiling parrot?

2004-09-01 Thread Robert Schwebel
::RunSteps', 'cc', 'arm-softfloat-linux-gnu-gcc', 'ld', 'arm-softfloat-linux-gnu-gcc', 'debugging', 1) called at Configure.pl line 376 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/parrot --8-- Robert -- Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schwebel | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science

Re: parrot cvs mirrored with svk

2004-08-27 Thread Robert Spier
a Subversion mirror of the parrot cvs repository with svk. Will try to keep it in sync until Robert have time to do similar setup on perl.org. So you could now use the Subversion repository (readonly) at: svn://svn.clkao.org/parrot/cvs/trunk web interface at http://svn.clkao.org/svnweb/parrot

Re: Test::DoubleQuotedEntities

2004-08-24 Thread Kirrily Skud Robert
on that module, either. K. -- Kirrily 'Skud' Robert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://infotrope.net/ There's too much blood in my caffeine system.

Planet Parrot

2004-08-22 Thread Robert
Matt and Steve's postings about their Parrot related blogs triggered me to create 'Planet Parrot' - http://planet.parrotcode.org It's an aggregator of: Matt chromatic Dan Suglaski It only has a link to Steve's blog right now, because he doesn't provide RSS. (The

Re: Updates to modules-related pod

2004-08-17 Thread Kirrily Skud Robert
, why burden new authors with it? I raised this on [EMAIL PROTECTED] the other day in fact. Register namespace is useful in some ways and not in others, it seems. The most useless part of it is the published modules list, and IMO we should get rid of the thing. K. -- Kirrily 'Skud' Robert

Re: PATCH for parrotcode.org

2004-08-16 Thread Robert Spier
At Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:05:34 -0400, William Coleda wrote: [1 text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)] Attached find a patch to http://www.parrotcode.org/examples/index.html that: (0) depends on a patch I sent to the webmaster folks earlier adding back in the docs/* hierarchy (a small shim of .html

Updates to modules-related pod

2004-08-16 Thread Kirrily Skud Robert
there. Thinking of attacking perlmodlib next, and removing a lot of those long lists. I'm pretty sure we're better off pointing to web resources for most of the gunk that's in there. K. -- Kirrily 'Skud' Robert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://infotrope.net/ Fist it. It's my solution to everything

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