RE: [perl6]RE: Helping with configure

2001-11-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:36 PM 11/3/2001 -0800, Brent Dax wrote: Well, for now we're using Perl for Configure, but that won't be possible in the final version. Nasty bootsrapping issues with that. :^) You'd be surprised... :) Seriously, miniparrot, enough to do simple file ops, spawn external programs and

RE: [perl6]RE: Helping with configure

2001-11-04 Thread Brent Dax
Dan Sugalski: # At 10:36 PM 11/3/2001 -0800, Brent Dax wrote: # Well, for now we're using Perl for Configure, but that won't # be possible # in the final version. Nasty bootsrapping issues with that. :^) # # You'd be surprised... :) # # Seriously, miniparrot, enough to do simple file ops, spawn

RE: [perl6]RE: Helping with configure

2001-11-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:12 AM 11/4/2001 -0800, Brent Dax wrote: Dan Sugalski: # At 10:36 PM 11/3/2001 -0800, Brent Dax wrote: # Well, for now we're using Perl for Configure, but that won't # be possible # in the final version. Nasty bootsrapping issues with that. :^) # # You'd be surprised... :) # # Seriously,

Re: [perl6]RE: Helping with configure

2001-11-04 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Zach Lipton wrote: parrot. The idea is to have the Configure.pl script itself run .cm files located in Config/, these .cm files (configuremodule) would do the actual work of configuration. The Conf.pm module would contain a set of API's for the .cm files to call. (this is

RE: [perl6]RE: Helping with configure

2001-11-03 Thread Brent Dax
Zach Lipton: # Ok, great. Thanks. I'll see what I can do. # # Random idea off the top of my head, note that this assumes # that configure # will use perl to work, if this is not going to be true, this # probably won't # work. Well, for now we're using Perl for Configure, but that won't be