Re: some goals for the next release

2005-12-06 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > What still needs to be done: > - CLI options need some minor tweaks I think they need some major design. In particular, it would be nice to have a documented consistent interface to setting or unsetting various things. Then, it would be *very* nice

Re: some goals for the next release

2005-12-05 Thread jerry gay
On 12/5/05, Joshua Hoblitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not just the steps themselves need work, there is still some fairly > substantial work left to be done on the configure framework as part of > my refactoring project. This has been going rather slowly because it's > usually bad to major radic

Re: some goals for the next release

2005-12-05 Thread Jonathan Worthington
"Leopold Toetsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * interfaces: start some brainstorming, what we might need in Parrot core Having these would be great for the work I'm doing on the .NET => PIR translator. Also I would really like to have support for:- * Static methods * Class level attributes (as

Re: some goals for the next release

2005-12-05 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 06:37:25PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > This is an unordered collection of my thoughts towards a next release: > * config module cleanup: auto/jit.pm and gen/icu.pm comes to my mind > (and why /gen anyway?) Not just the steps themselves need work, there is still some fa

Re: some goals for the next release

2005-12-04 Thread Roger Browne
> Something else? I would be pleased to have a design decision made regarding inheritance of attributes in Parrot objects. See the last few comments here: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=36411 for the design questions that arose. Regards, Roger Browne

some goals for the next release

2005-12-04 Thread Leopold Toetsch
This is an unordered collection of my thoughts towards a next release: * namespaces: create a PDD based on Matt's document * interfaces: start some brainstorming, what we might need in Parrot core * bytecode & library loading: needs rewriting and major cleanup * config module cleanup: auto/jit.

Re: The next release ...

2005-12-02 Thread Nick Glencross
Leopold Toetsch wrote: - please test on all available platforms and 'make smoke' and/or update PLATFORMS With the recent Stash changes and (I presume) a fix to avoid reloading pbc files, we're passing all tests on HP-UX! Something's happened to spoil languages in the last day, but I don't b

The next release ...

2005-12-02 Thread Leopold Toetsch
The next release is due this weekend. I'll start release procedure at Sun 4th, ~13:00 UTC. The usual terms apply: - no bigger changes to Parrot core, especially nothing that could break the build or Parrot - please test on all available platforms and 'make smoke' and/or up

the next release

2005-11-04 Thread Leopold Toetsch
The next release 0.3.1. will happen at Sun 6th. I'll start the release procedure around 12:00 UTC - please no checkins at all after this time until further notice. There is kind of a feature freeze from now on, which means: please make sure that nothing breaks. Parrot corrently tests 10

Re: .HL_language pragma (was: Proposed steps towards the next release 0.2 and beyond.)

2005-03-07 Thread MrJoltCola
At 07:50 AM 3/7/2005, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Roger Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 11:01 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> 4.1.1) implement a language pragma in assembler, e.g.: >> >> .HL_language Python Sounds good to me except that I would prefer you remove the HL_ and

.HL_language pragma (was: Proposed steps towards the next release 0.2 and beyond.)

2005-03-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Roger Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 11:01 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> 4.1.1) implement a language pragma in assembler, e.g.: >> >> .HL_language Python > A pragma like that seems to split high-level languages into two groups: > those that are specially known to p

Re: Proposed steps towards the next release 0.2 and beyond.

2005-03-07 Thread Roger Browne
es, and would create a BirdCharacter if the calling language was "Bird", but would create a PyInt if the calling language was "Python". I hope this makes some sense, and that you can see some merit in it. > Proposed steps towards the next release 0.2 and beyond. I'd be

Proposed steps towards the next release 0.2 and beyond.

2005-03-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Below inline/attached is a proposal for Parrot core changes. I'll post a more detailed proposal for 1) objects in a minute. leo Proposed steps towards the next release 0.2 and beyond. These are numbered just for reference but are else in no particular order. A lot can be done in parallel.

The next release

2004-06-11 Thread Dan Sugalski
While I realize that Leo's doing conference stuff at the moment, I'd like to start thinking about the next release. For this, I think I'd specifically like to shoot for the redo of classes/ -- getting all the PMCs we *want* actually in and working, and the ones we don'