Re: This fortnight's summary

2004-08-31 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:19:06PM +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > Chia-liang Kao announced that he (I'm guessing, I'm not very good at Yes, he. But I assume that someone's already confirmed this to you. He's been in London recently. I'm not sure if he's still here. Nick

Re: This fortnight's summary

2004-08-25 Thread William Coleda
These stuff-its should, of course, be stuffed into RT as TODO tickets. Not that I'm a zealot or anything. John Macdonald wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:19:06PM +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: A small task for the interested Dan posted another of his small tasks for the interested (maybe

RE: This fortnight's summary

2004-08-25 Thread Joe Gottman
None of the links for the perl6-language threads work. Joe Gottman

Re: This fortnight's summary

2004-08-25 Thread John Macdonald
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:19:06PM +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > A small task for the interested > Dan posted another of his small tasks for the interested (maybe we > should start calling them STFTIs?). This time he's after source tests to > test the embedding interface and s

This fortnight's summary

2004-08-25 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
and I've been away at EuroFoo over the weekend. So, this fortnight's summary might be a bit sketchy. We're back with starting with perl6-internals this time as it continues to comfortably out traffic perl6-language (message count was running about 3:1 in favour of p6

Re: This fortnight's summary

2004-06-23 Thread Scott Bronson
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 08:12, Dan Sugalski wrote: > The license issues there require that the full source of GMP ship with any > binary copy. (the license has no "provide a place to fetch it" > provision--the source is required) Which would make the Gameboy version > of Parrot somewhat cumbersome. :

Re: This fortnight's summary

2004-06-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > Bignums! > Dan asked for a volunteer to get Bignums working. Alin Iacob stepped up > to the plate. Leo suggested that, rather than starting from > types/bignum.c, it might be better to use an existing, maintained, maths > (Look,

This fortnight's summary

2004-06-23 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 20040621 Good evening. You find me typing away in a motel room on the edge of the Lake District on the shortest night of the year. I suppose, by rites, I should be spending the night by some stone circle drinking, dancing and generally mak

Re: This fortnight's summary

2004-06-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: "PIO_unix_pipe()" Leo's implemented a "PIO_unix_pipe()" method which allows you to run an external program and capture the results with a Parrot IO handle. He doctored the "open" opcode to use it pipe = open "/bin/ls -l", "-|" While that's right r

This fortnight's summary

2004-06-07 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2004-06-06 Whee! There's a new graphics card in the G5, which means I can type this at the big screen again, which makes me happy. Well, it would make me far happier if the new card didn't leave horrible artifacts all over the screen like

This fortnight's summary

2004-04-20 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2004-04-18 The only problem with summarizing two week's worth of Perl 6 happenings is that there's twice as much stuff to summarize. Still, there's no way I could have made the time to write a summary last week so I'll take my lumps. I am