Re: Configure System (was Re: [TODO] --nomanicheck fibs)

2005-10-30 Thread Jonathan Worthington
Joshua Hoblitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:49:33PM +0100, Jonathan Worthington wrote: If people have free time to spend on configure stuff, might it not be better spent working on the real configure system that we want to have (e.g. a set of makefiles for each platform

Re: Configure System (was Re: [TODO] --nomanicheck fibs)

2005-10-30 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 09:13:31PM -, Jonathan Worthington wrote: One would certainly hope so. :-) I guess this approach can work if the code produced by the Perl 5 compiler only contains the subset of Parrot functionality that MiniParrot can handle. The constraint can be pushed higher

Configure System (was Re: [TODO] --nomanicheck fibs)

2005-10-25 Thread chromatic
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 17:27 -0700, Will Coleda wrote: Minor nit: when running Configure.pl with --nomanicheck, Configure should report the MANIFEST check as skipped, not done. particle beat me to this one, but *wow* the plugin system for configuration is grotty. Does anyone have a

Re: Configure System (was Re: [TODO] --nomanicheck fibs)

2005-10-25 Thread Matt Diephouse
chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 17:27 -0700, Will Coleda wrote: Minor nit: when running Configure.pl with --nomanicheck, Configure should report the MANIFEST check as skipped, not done. particle beat me to this one, but *wow* the plugin system for configuration is

Re: Configure System (was Re: [TODO] --nomanicheck fibs)

2005-10-25 Thread jerry gay
On 10/25/05, chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 17:27 -0700, Will Coleda wrote: Minor nit: when running Configure.pl with --nomanicheck, Configure should report the MANIFEST check as skipped, not done. particle beat me to this one, but *wow* the plugin system for

Re: Configure System (was Re: [TODO] --nomanicheck fibs)

2005-10-25 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:16:27PM -0700, jerry gay wrote: i've started developing a plugin architecture for $work, so i've been thinking about plugin engines lately. if you're up for working on a redesign, i'll gladly pitch in. even if you're looking only to clean it up, i'd certainly

Re: Configure System (was Re: [TODO] --nomanicheck fibs)

2005-10-25 Thread Jonathan Worthington
chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 17:27 -0700, Will Coleda wrote: Minor nit: when running Configure.pl with --nomanicheck, Configure should report the MANIFEST check as skipped, not done. particle beat me to this one, but *wow* the plugin system for configuration is

Re: Configure System (was Re: [TODO] --nomanicheck fibs)

2005-10-25 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Oct 26, 2005, at 0:49, Jonathan Worthington wrote: If people have free time to spend on configure stuff, might it not be better spent working on the real configure system that we want to have (e.g. a set of makefiles for each platform to build miniparrot, then configure is a Parrot

Re: Configure System (was Re: [TODO] --nomanicheck fibs)

2005-10-25 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:19:50PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:16:27PM -0700, jerry gay wrote: i've started developing a plugin architecture for $work, so i've been thinking about plugin engines lately. if you're up for working on a redesign, i'll gladly pitch

Re: Configure System (was Re: [TODO] --nomanicheck fibs)

2005-10-25 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:49:33PM +0100, Jonathan Worthington wrote: If people have free time to spend on configure stuff, might it not be better spent working on the real configure system that we want to have (e.g. a set of makefiles for each platform to build miniparrot, then configure