Re: Configure.pl and the history of the world

2004-03-19 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Josh Wilmes wrote: At 10:22 on 03/18/2004 EST, Andrew Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 5. You probably don't need to support Eunice anymore. I think i'm not the only one who would be deeply upset if I ceased to be congratulated for not running Eunice though. Ah, but since we'll have One Confi

Re: Configure.pl and the history of the world

2004-03-19 Thread Josh Wilmes
At 10:22 on 03/18/2004 EST, Andrew Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 5. You probably don't need to support Eunice anymore. I think i'm not the only one who would be deeply upset if I ceased to be congratulated for not running Eunice though. --Josh

Re: Configure.pl and the history of the world

2004-03-19 Thread Josh Wilmes
I began a little piece of this ages ago- attempting to translate the parts that identify the platform ($^O, essentially) from metaconfig to something we could put into Configure.pl. Even that relatively simple chore wasn't too easy. I should still have the work-in-progress code for that around

Re: Configure.pl and the history of the world

2004-03-18 Thread Andrew Dougherty
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Larry Wall wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 06:00:51PM -0800, Brent Dax Royal-Gordon wrote: > : Dan Sugalski wrote: > : >Instead, > : >what I'd like is for someone (Oh, Brent... :) to go through perl's > : >configure > : > : Gulp. > > I'm sure Andy can give you *reams* of advi

Re: Configure.pl and the history of the world

2004-03-17 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Wed 17 Mar 2004 02:31, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 07:47:25PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > : Second, we're running over the same problems in system configuration > : that perl (and python, and ruby, for that matter) have already run > : across. Moreover, we'

Re: Configure.pl and the history of the world

2004-03-16 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Larry Wall wrote in perl.perl6.internals : > > Not using metaconfig (or something like it) would be the biggest > mistake. It's actually next to impossible to maintain something like > a Configure script directly. Actually as parrot already uses IIUC variables set up by Configure, I think one co

Re: Configure.pl and the history of the world

2004-03-16 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 06:00:51PM -0800, Brent Dax Royal-Gordon wrote: : Dan Sugalski wrote: : >Instead, : >what I'd like is for someone (Oh, Brent... :) to go through perl's : >configure : : Gulp. I'm sure Andy can give you *reams* of advice on Perl 5's configurator, especially on how it all

Re: Configure.pl and the history of the world

2004-03-16 Thread Brent \"Dax\" Royal-Gordon
Dan Sugalski wrote: Instead, what I'd like is for someone (Oh, Brent... :) to go through perl's configure Gulp. -- Brent "Dax" Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Re: Configure.pl and the history of the world

2004-03-16 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 07:47:25PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: : Second, we're running over the same problems in system configuration : that perl (and python, and ruby, for that matter) have already run : across. Moreover, we're making the same decisions, only... : differently. This is silly both

Configure.pl and the history of the world

2004-03-16 Thread Dan Sugalski
Hey folks. Now that we're integrating in with perl 5, a few things are becoming really obvious. First, we really need to work on the embedding interface. Memory handling, signals, and I/O are the biggies there. Working on that, though not fast enough for Arthur. Second, we're running over the