Re: Web Module (Was: Perl6 new features)

2007-06-25 Thread Hakim Cassimally
On 23/06/07, chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 22 June 2007 11:07:35 Chas Owens wrote: Please, god, no. Or at least make two distributions: Bare Perl 6 and Perl 6. Many companies have a Only Core Perl policy. They refuse to install CPAN modules because We don't trust them. I

Re: [perl #41496] [TODO] config - profiling options should have their own step in config/init/defaults.pm

2007-06-25 Thread Paul Cochrane
kid51, On 25/06/07, James Keenan via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue Feb 13 08:01:12 2007, ptc wrote: The profiling options specified in config/init/defaults.pm should be moved into their own 'step' of the configure process. Paul: Can you explain your rationale for this? This was one

[perl #42427] [CAGE] cleanup perlcritic errors

2007-06-25 Thread Paul Cochrane via RT
To be able to attack this ticket properly, we need to be able to run at least a subset of the perlcritic tests with 'make test' alongside the other coding standards tests, so as to ensure that any broken windows do not remain so for very long. Therefore, I propose to change the functionality

Re: [perl #43187] [BUG] MinGW (build) busted?

2007-06-25 Thread Ron Blaschke
chromatic wrote: On Sunday 24 June 2007 04:48:19 Ron Blaschke wrote: Thanks for picking this up. The problem was caused by C#pragma once which MinGW GCC 3.4.2 seems to choke on. There was some discussion on the list (Removing #pragma) too. It looks like r18945 should have fixed the

Parrot Bug Summary

2007-06-25 Thread Parrot Bug Summary
Parrot Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/parrot/Overview.html Generated at Mon Jun 25 13:00:02 2007 GMT --- * Numbers * New Issues * Overview of Open Issues * Ticket Status By Version * Requestors with

Re: Web Module (Was: Perl6 new features)

2007-06-25 Thread Peter Scott
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:57:18 +0200, Hakim Cassimally wrote: On 23/06/07, chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 22 June 2007 11:07:35 Chas Owens wrote: Please, god, no. Or at least make two distributions: Bare Perl 6 and Perl 6. Many companies have a Only Core Perl policy. They refuse

Re: Web Module (Was: Perl6 new features)

2007-06-25 Thread Luke Palmer
On 6/25/07, Peter Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will just voice my support for putting best-of-breed modules for very common tasks (CGI, DBI for sure) in the core. Of course, then you get the disadvantage that most users will see new versions of those modules as often (or seldom, as it

Re: Web Module (Was: Perl6 new features)

2007-06-25 Thread Paul Hodges
How about a Bundle::Common? Streamline both the core and the inclusion of the most commonly used modules? The core does include the CPAN module, right? Personally, I *prefer* grabbing what I need piecemeal, but I understand making it easy if possible --- Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Web Module (Was: Perl6 new features)

2007-06-25 Thread Juerd Waalboer
Hakim Cassimally skribis 2007-06-25 9:57 (+0200): Releasing a language without a useful, easily installable library bundle could quite reasonably be construed as a stupid business practice. A useful, easily installable library bundle does not have to be in the core distribution. Debian

Re: [perl #41915] [TODO] remove unused manifest-generating scripts

2007-06-25 Thread Paul Cochrane
On 25/06/07, Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On So. 06. Mai 2007, 12:09:58, bernhard wrote: TODO: Check whether Parrot::Distribution::gen_manifest_skip() can be used in mk_manifest_and_skip.pl or alternatively be deleted. Parrot::Distribution::gen_manifest_skip() and

Re: Referring to source code within Perldoc

2007-06-25 Thread Jonathan Lang
David Green wrote: (Unless I'm missing something, which is always possible; you can put a piece of POD geographically next to a Perl declaration, but I'm not sure that's unambiguous enough. Hm, why not? POD doesn't know what's going on around it, but Perl does, and could say, I've just

[perl #43371] Transfer Design Tickets to Launchpad

2007-06-25 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #43371] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=43371 Per Allison coke.

Re: Web Module (Was: Perl6 new features)

2007-06-25 Thread chromatic
On Monday 25 June 2007 00:57:18 Hakim Cassimally wrote: Releasing a language without a useful, easily installable library bundle could quite reasonably be construed as a stupid business practice. Of course. Yet some dozen years later, the argument for keeping interfaces such as File::Find

[perl #43375] Parrot configuration option exec-prefix: hyphen vs. underscore

2007-06-25 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by James Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #43375] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=43375 --- osname= linux osvers= 2.6.15 arch= i386-linux-thread-multi cc= cc ---

Re: [perl #43368] [PATCH] typo in docs/gettingstarted.pod

2007-06-25 Thread chromatic
On Monday 25 June 2007 13:59:53 Bob Wilkinson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/parrot/docs$ diff -u gettingstarted.pod.orig gettingstarted.pod --- gettingstarted.pod.orig 2007-06-25 21:45:46.0 + +++ gettingstarted.pod 2007-06-25 21:45:57.0 + @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@

[perl #43368] [PATCH] typo in docs/gettingstarted.pod

2007-06-25 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Bob Wilkinson # Please include the string: [perl #43368] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=43368 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/parrot/docs$ diff -u gettingstarted.pod.orig

request for review of #42944

2007-06-25 Thread Mike Mattie
Parrot ML, please review #42944 . This for me blocks further submissions against library.c as I need to know what I will be basing against. Cheers, Mike Mattie - [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[perl #41915] [TODO] remove unused manifest-generating scripts

2007-06-25 Thread Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT
On So. 06. Mai 2007, 12:09:58, bernhard wrote: TODO: Check whether Parrot::Distribution::gen_manifest_skip() can be used in mk_manifest_and_skip.pl or alternatively be deleted. Parrot::Distribution::gen_manifest_skip() and subsequently t/distro/manifest_skip.t have been broken for some time.

[perl #41915] [TODO] remove unused manifest-generating scripts

2007-06-25 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Mon Jun 25 11:46:07 2007, ptc wrote: On 25/06/07, Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT parrotbug-followup !-- x -- at parrotcode.org wrote: On So. 06. Mai 2007, 12:09:58, bernhard wrote: TODO: Check whether Parrot::Distribution::gen_manifest_skip() can be used in mk_manifest_and_skip.pl or