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... :) ># ># Se

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, spaw

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 che

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

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 possibl

Re: [perl6]RE: Helping with configure

2001-11-03 Thread 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. I am the Bugzilla Installation Owner and have been tinkering with similar things lately to setup

RE: Helping with configure

2001-11-03 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Brent Dax wrote: > Zach Lipton: > # Hello everybody > # > # I am interested in helping out with configure. I don't know > # too much about > # parrot, but I have decent perl skills (I can do what I want > # to do when I > # want to do it) and am interested in helping out. What

RE: Helping with configure

2001-11-03 Thread Brent Dax
Zach Lipton: # Hello everybody # # I am interested in helping out with configure. I don't know # too much about # parrot, but I have decent perl skills (I can do what I want # to do when I # want to do it) and am interested in helping out. What can I # do to help? # (time to spew the to-do list ;)