Async I/O (was Re: Functions for embedders to override)

2004-08-13 Thread Scott Bronson
ves the IO issue before then. My girlfriend is moving to Boston, so that should help a lot. :) - Scott P.S. This is all licensed under the same terms as Parrot: GPL or Artistic 2.0, your choice. // io.h // Scott Bronson // 2 Oct 2003 // This is the generic Async I/O API. It can be implemented

Re: Semi-out of touch

2004-06-30 Thread Scott Bronson
On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 06:25, Dan Sugalski wrote: > While I'm off in this "real world" thing, it'd be in our best interests to > go do some work on parrot's standard library. A good place to start is > with the list of functions we'll need for the upcoming pie-thon contest Is this list compiled any

Re: GMP's license looks Parrot-compatible

2004-06-30 Thread Scott Bronson
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 07:15, Dan Sugalski wrote: > In all those cases you've got a binary-only distribution, and a valid > one. (In fact, one that we want to encourage) Section 4, by my reading, > means you've got to ship source to the LGPL component. Well, "provide source" might be a better way o

Re: GMP's license looks Parrot-compatible

2004-06-30 Thread Scott Bronson
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 00:14, Ion Alexandru Morega wrote: > ... there are advantages in including > the source code: > - We could trim down all the functionality we don't use (if there is > any) On modern architectures, I don't think that this will actually buy very much. Shared libraries ar

GMP's license looks Parrot-compatible

2004-06-29 Thread Scott Bronson
ASSUMPTION Parrot will only link to the GMP library, right? Either static or shared, doesn't matter. IN BRIEF If so, then there's no problem. GMP is licensed under the LGPL, the same license as libc6. Parrot links to libc6 without any problem, right? (Though thankfully it doesn't use much o

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. :