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 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

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

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 radical

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:

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