Re: Building Parrot with MinGW, ActivePerl & command.com

2005-06-06 Thread François PERRAD
At 11:29 04/06/2005 -0700, you wrote: I actually have Linux installed on this machine, but for reasons which I'm not going to get into here I use Win98 for day-to-day computing. I therefore took it as a challenge to get Parrot to build with crufty ol' command.com. I used MinGW 3.1.0-1 and Active

Re: [PATCH] Re: HP-UX build notes

2005-06-06 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Nick Glencross wrote: > Andy Dougherty wrote: > > > On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Nick Glencross wrote: > > > > > > > Not a problem. I'm attaching a patch which I believe fixes all the build > > > issues on HP-UX, and shouldn't cause any breakage with any other > > > platforms. > > >

Re: What the heck is... wrong with Parrot development?

2005-06-06 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:07:42PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 07:53:03PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: > > > "SV" == Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > SV> Three cheers for Dan! > > > > hear! hear!! > > I'll add a cheer as well And I. > Bu

Re: What the heck is... wrong with Parrot development?

2005-06-06 Thread Edward Peschko
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 07:53:03PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: > > "SV" == Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > SV> Please honour his decision to bow out gracefully without turning it into > SV> a childish battle of egos. > > SV> In the meantime let us celebrate 5 years of Dan S

Re: What the heck is... wrong with Parrot development?

2005-06-06 Thread Uri Guttman
> "SV" == Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SV> Please honour his decision to bow out gracefully without turning it into SV> a childish battle of egos. SV> In the meantime let us celebrate 5 years of Dan Sugalski's contribution SV> to the Parrot and Perl 6 project. SV> Three

Re: What the heck is... wrong with Parrot development?

2005-06-06 Thread Sam Vilain
Fagyal Csongor wrote: With all respect, I think this is a very important thing which needs attention, and I hope that you will help us to clarify the situation. I am pretty sure Dan did not leave because he had a bad day - we know he Dan's position was very stressful, he had people from all s

Re: What the heck is... wrong with Parrot development?

2005-06-06 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:31:01PM +0200, anonymous coward wrote: : It's a funny old world... : wrote Dan Sugalski on June 04, 2005 in his Squawks of the Parrot blog. : Go and see: . : : Hence the subject. : : What the heck is wrong with Parrot

Re: File/Directory handling

2005-06-06 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Roger Browne wrote: There are parrot opcodes for things like opening and reading a file, and PMCs for things like random numbers, environment variables, timers etc. But (unless I've missed something) there is not yet anything that lets me (from PIR) read a directory and get a list of the files wi

[perl #36162] [PATCH] Emacs pasm major mode

2005-06-06 Thread Jacinto S.
# New Ticket Created by "Jacinto S." # Please include the string: [perl #36162] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=36162 > This patch expands on the documentation in C, namely how the Emacs pasm mode should be

Re: [PATCH] Re: HP-UX build notes

2005-06-06 Thread Nick Glencross
Andy Dougherty wrote: On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Nick Glencross wrote: Not a problem. I'm attaching a patch which I believe fixes all the build issues on HP-UX, and shouldn't cause any breakage with any other platforms. I've retested on Linux and cygwin (although cygwin has problems with dynclass

[PATCH] Re: HP-UX build notes

2005-06-06 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Nick Glencross wrote: > Not a problem. I'm attaching a patch which I believe fixes all the build > issues on HP-UX, and shouldn't cause any breakage with any other platforms. > > I've retested on Linux and cygwin (although cygwin has problems with > dynclasses), and all's well

File/Directory handling

2005-06-06 Thread Roger Browne
There are parrot opcodes for things like opening and reading a file, and PMCs for things like random numbers, environment variables, timers etc. But (unless I've missed something) there is not yet anything that lets me (from PIR) read a directory and get a list of the files within that directory, o

What the heck is... wrong with Parrot development?

2005-06-06 Thread anonymous coward
It's a funny old world... wrote Dan Sugalski on June 04, 2005 in his Squawks of the Parrot blog. Go and see: . Hence the subject. What the heck is wrong with Parrot development? anonymous coward __

Re: [perl #36136] [PATCH] Add "Amber for parrot" to languages/LANGUAGES.STATUS

2005-06-06 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Roger Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Added an entry for "Amber for parrot" to languages/LANGUAGES.STATUS Thanks, applied - r8281 > PS: The "Patch Submission Instructions" page > http://www.parrotcode.org/patchfaq.html > says "do a diff -u", but I presume a "svn diff" is what you prefer.

[perl #36136] [PATCH] Add "Amber for parrot" to languages/LANGUAGES.STATUS

2005-06-06 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Roger Browne # Please include the string: [perl #36136] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=36136 > 1. Added an entry for "Amber for parrot" to languages/LANGUAGES.STATUS 2. In the first

Re: HP-UX build notes

2005-06-06 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Nick Glencross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not a problem. I'm attaching a patch which I believe fixes all the build > issues on HP-UX, and shouldn't cause any breakage with any other platforms. Thanks, applied - r8280 leo

Re: HP-UX build notes

2005-06-06 Thread Nick Glencross
Leopold Toetsch wrote: The various HPUX-related changed didn't make it into the release, sorry. Could you please provide a patch for all outstanding issued. Leo, Not a problem. I'm attaching a patch which I believe fixes all the build issues on HP-UX, and shouldn't cause any breakage with a

Re: [svn:parrot] rev 8279 - trunk/config/gen/makefiles

2005-06-06 Thread Leopold Toetsch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Log: > -t stopped working. Per leo, "try -t1" Things are a bit more complicated: parrot -t foo.pbc # ok But parrot -t foo.pbc x.y # err The problem is that -t takes optional arguments now, so it uses foo.pbc as argument, because it's

Re: Announcing amber for parrot 0.2.1

2005-06-06 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Roger Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have made available version 0.2.1 of the "amber for > parrot" scripting language. Could you please submit a patch against languages/LANGUAGES.STATUS - a short summary and where folks can find it. Thanks, leo

Re: a note WRT exception handlers

2005-06-06 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Leopold Toetsch wrote: Yesterday on IIRC oops, too man TLAs and ETLAs and severe lack of coffee. leo

a note WRT exception handlers

2005-06-06 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Yesterday on IIRC coke pasted[1] the following piece of code, I'll snip here some irrelevant parts: push_eh catch $P1 = find_global "Spam", "q" clear_eh In combination with the resume functionality below in the "catch" handler, this will do the following: 1) global found, pop the han