Re: [patch] give Configure a policy

2001-10-08 Thread Brad Hughes
Brent Dax wrote: [...] > The code could look like this: > > (pull in hints file) > if(-e "Parrot/Config.pm") { > eval "use Parrot::Config"; > %c=%pConfig; > } > (etcetera) > > except that "Parrot/Config.pm" isn't portable to VMS. I

Re: [PATCH] Fixed typo in Configure.pl

2001-09-21 Thread Brad Hughes
Brent Dax wrote: > > Dan Sugalski: > # At 06:43 PM 9/20/2001 -0700, Brent Dax wrote: > # >Stefan Dragnev: > # ># - $c{cc_denug} = ' '; > # ># + $c{cc_debug} = ' '; > # > > # >So *that*'s why -g kept appearing...thanks, applied. > # > # Don't forget that debugging isn't always -g. (It'

Re: Things we need to do.

2001-09-13 Thread Brad Hughes
Brent Dax wrote: [...] > > +sub buildfile { > + my($filename)=shift; > + > + local $/; > + open(IN, "<$filename.in"); According to the coding guidelines PDD (which still doesn't seem to have been assigned a PDD number), filenames shouldn't have more than one '.' in them. I kno

Re: Unicode handling

2001-03-26 Thread Brad Hughes
Simon Cozens wrote: [...] > I'm just not sure it's fair on Old World hackers. Will there be a way to stop > Perl upgrading stuff to Unicode on the way in? and I'm probably not the only Old World hacker that would prefer a build option to simply eliminate Unicode support altogether...