Re: [perl #43857] [TODO] Refactor config probes that are used only by language implementation

2008-09-12 Thread Reini Urban
2008/6/22 jerry gay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Bernhard Schmalhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Keenan via RT schrieb: On Fri Jul 13 09:58:33 2007, bernhard wrote: There are several config probes that are only used for language implementations. Examples are

Re: [perl #43857] [TODO] Refactor config probes that are used only by language implementation

2008-09-12 Thread Bernhard Schmalhofer
James Keenan via RT schrieb: I'm trying to see if we can move this ticket toward resolution. I think that it has remained unresolved for so long because the original post originally called for two steps: (a) removal from Configure.pl of configuration steps which probed for features only used

Re: [perl #43857] [TODO] Refactor config probes that are used only by language implementation

2008-09-12 Thread Bernhard Schmalhofer
Reini Urban via RT schrieb: Defining the hash entries for the subs in PIR syntax is awful. So I envision Makefile.pl, Makefile.nqp or Makefile.p6 for this syntax. For p6 we must ensure that every parrot package has a perl6 also then. Not good. So pl, pir or the simple nqp. The libs and

Re: [perl #43857] [TODO] Refactor config probes that are used only by language implementation

2008-09-12 Thread NotFound
Defining the hash entries for the subs in PIR syntax is awful. So I envision Makefile.pl, Makefile.nqp or Makefile.p6 for this syntax. For p6 we must ensure that every parrot package has a perl6 also then. Not good. So pl, pir or the simple nqp. The libs and scripts could be written in Perl

[perl #43857] [TODO] Refactor config probes that are used only by language implementation

2008-09-12 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Fri Sep 12 02:18:57 2008, bernhard wrote: James Keenan via RT schrieb: I'm trying to see if we can move this ticket toward resolution. And that's where discussion left off three months ago. I am recommending the following: (1) Mark this ticket resolved. (2) Conduct discussion

[perl #43857] [TODO] Refactor config probes that are used only by language implementation

2008-09-12 Thread James Keenan via RT
Resolved.

Re: [perl #43857] [TODO] Refactor config probes that are used only by language implementation

2008-09-12 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 03:47:27PM +0200, NotFound wrote: Defining the hash entries for the subs in PIR syntax is awful. So I envision Makefile.pl, Makefile.nqp or Makefile.p6 for this syntax. For p6 we must ensure that every parrot package has a perl6 also then. Not good. So pl, pir or

[perl #43857] [TODO] Refactor config probes that are used only by language implementation

2008-09-11 Thread James Keenan via RT
I'm trying to see if we can move this ticket toward resolution. I think that it has remained unresolved for so long because the original post originally called for two steps: (a) removal from Configure.pl of configuration steps which probed for features only used in specific language

Re: [perl #43857] [TODO] Refactor config probes that are used only by language implementation

2008-09-11 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 4:47 PM, James Keenan via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to see if we can move this ticket toward resolution. I think that it has remained unresolved for so long because the original post originally called for two steps: (a) removal from Configure.pl of

Re: [perl #43857] [TODO] Refactor config probes that are used only by language implementation

2008-06-22 Thread Bernhard Schmalhofer
James Keenan via RT schrieb: On Fri Jul 13 09:58:33 2007, bernhard wrote: There are several config probes that are only used for language implementations. Examples are config/auto/m4.pm and config/auto/python.pm. Please find attached two files. The first greps the repository for

Re: [perl #43857] [TODO] Refactor config probes that are used only by language implementation

2008-06-22 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Bernhard Schmalhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Keenan via RT schrieb: On Fri Jul 13 09:58:33 2007, bernhard wrote: There are several config probes that are only used for language implementations. Examples are config/auto/m4.pm and

[perl #43857] [TODO] Refactor config probes that are used only by language implementation

2008-06-22 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Sun Jun 22 03:39:37 2008, bernhard wrote: So 'has_gnu_m4' is not essential to the implementation of 'Parrot m4'. In r28633 I removed the use of 'has_gnu_m4' and the config step auto::m4.pm can now be removed. Done. Patch applied in r28656 But the real scope of ticket RT#43857 is

[perl #43857] [TODO] Refactor config probes that are used only by language implementation

2008-06-11 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Fri Jul 13 09:58:33 2007, bernhard wrote: There are several config probes that are only used for language implementations. Examples are config/auto/m4.pm and config/auto/python.pm. In order to improve the seperation of concerns, these probes should be moved to a separate directory.

[perl #43857] [TODO] Refactor config probes that are used only by language implementation

2007-07-13 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Bernhard Schmalhofer # Please include the string: [perl #43857] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=43857 There are several config probes that are only used for language