Re: Subject: Parrot 0.4.8 Released

2007-01-23 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
I think much of the needed work for Tru64 would be simply to add *at least one* 64-bit platform for Parrot's "core" platforms. Preferably an LP64 one, instead of an LLP64, since LP64 would be more likely to shake out bad assumptions. But if LLP64 is more easily available, so be it. Superplusgood

Re: Subject: Parrot 0.4.8 Released

2007-01-22 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 01:48:41PM -0500, Matt Diephouse wrote: > >> Alternatively, if you (or anyone else) wanted and were able to provide >> developer access to a Tru64 box, existing committers could try to fix the >> problems. And yes, I would be willing to take a shot a

Re: Subject: Parrot 0.4.8 Released

2007-01-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 01:48:41PM -0500, Matt Diephouse wrote: > Alternatively, if you (or anyone else) wanted and were able to provide > developer access to a Tru64 box, existing committers could try to fix the > problems. And yes, I would be willing to take a shot at it (realizing that I > may

Re: Subject: Parrot 0.4.8 Released

2007-01-22 Thread Matt Diephouse
Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: chromatic wrote: > On Saturday 20 January 2007 10:36, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > >> I can't help the feeling that Parrot is a nice linux x86 experiment. >> Of course one can make the claim that not fixing the problems is my >> problem. > > I so do; wa

Re: Subject: Parrot 0.4.8 Released

2007-01-20 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
chromatic wrote: > On Saturday 20 January 2007 10:36, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > >> I can't help the feeling that Parrot is a nice linux x86 experiment. >> Of course one can make the claim that not fixing the problems is my >> problem. > > I so do; want commit access? To which I say: I knew that

Re: Subject: Parrot 0.4.8 Released

2007-01-20 Thread chromatic
On Saturday 20 January 2007 10:36, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > I can't help the feeling that Parrot is a nice linux x86 experiment. > Of course one can make the claim that not fixing the problems is my > problem. I so do; want commit access? From PDD01 (docs/clip/pdd01_overview.pod): Rec

Re: Subject: Parrot 0.4.8 Released

2007-01-20 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
>+ extended support for non-core platforms including Tru64 Huh? News to me. All the fixes for the problems recently reported by me were to subsystems like pge. Thanks for those fixes but I would hardly call the situation "extended support" since several core dumps and less serious failures