Sorry to split up the mail, first I will answer the second part first : > > The best thing will be if it is stored in an easy to use data > format. > > Maybe even YAML. > > Definitely! :) > > > BTW ingy, is yaml implemented as a free component for > > C#/dot net yet? It would be interesting to create such an interface > > into the existing code. Or do you think it is needed to rewrite > this in > > C#? (Well i guess that someone already is working on it) > > Jason Diamond wrote a YAML Dump/Load module for C# over a year ago. I > believe > he stopped working on it because the spec was changing hourly. Now > that the > 1.0 spec is nearly frozen, he may be interested in doing this again. > > His email address is: > > Jason Diamond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OK, I will look into testing this code under the pnet if possible. The Yaml handling and interaction between C# and Perl is quite interesting and should be helpfull tool for both sides.
> > Rhys w. has also made some interesting observations into the parrot > vm, > > it was discussed in this weeks development meeting. > > Could you send a list of links to help us get familiar with all of > this. ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://dotgnu.info/pipermail/developers/2002-May/006879.html >>> Is the plan to adapt parrot as the pNet VM? >>Parrot will never *be* the pnet VM, but it may eventually >>be able to run within the pnet environment as a co-VM >>with CLI and JVM, or as a C# library that implements >>the Parrot engine as a translator using Reflection.Emit. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Here is a good overview of the parrot bytecode issue from Rhys http://dotgnu.info/pipermail/developers/2002-May/006863.html http://dotgnu.info/pipermail/developers/2002-May/006857.html Here is a description of the newer ops that are needed: http://dotgnu.info/pipermail/developers/2002-October/008364.html More recently, gopal has created some parrot code from pnet: http://dotgnu.info/pipermail/developers/2002-October/008393.html I dont know too much about parrot/pnet, but have cced Rhys and Gopal, maybe they can answer some of your questions and provide some insite. Mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
