I've started a new branch whiteknight/6model to start porting 6model from NQP into Parrot core. As of a few minutes ago, Parrot is building again and passing most coretests. Even though Parrot builds, I haven't tested any of the new 6model features yet, so I am sure they are broken. I haven't gotten all the new ops added in yet, so you might not even be able to test it out anyway.
Several people have asked about what they can do to help. Here is a big list of things that we need to get this branch mergable. We are probably looking at a month or two of work minimum, considering all the fixes we need to make and all the coordination we need to do with NQP and Rakudo. 1. We need to build this with several compilers. I know NQP was not written with the same portability guidelines in mind as Parrot has. Tests especially with g++ and anything more exacting would be great. If you find problems, feel free to fix them 2. Codestd tests are failing hard. I've done a lot of fixing to get headerizer running, but we are going to need a lot more. This includes file- and function-level documentation (some functions have docs, but not in the correct POD format), ASSERT_ARGS, and various other formatting fixes. 3. We need to fix other tests that are failing as well. 4. We need to add tests for the new 6model features: the new PMC types, the new ops, etc. Some of these can probably be borrowed from the NQP repo. Some will need to be written fresh. We want to make sure coverage for these new files and features is high (80% at least, I would think. Higher is better). 5. We need to update several function names to use parrot naming conventions. I'm thinking "Parrot_6m_" as a prefix for the API functions, but I'm happy to hear other suggestions. We don't need to do it immediately, but we can start thinking about ways to better integrate 6model features into Parrot. This may mean updating existing ops to be 6model aware and maybe merging some of the new op semantics into old ops, updating PMC types and the pmc subsystem to better use 6model features, updating the packfile system, updating IMCC, etc. I am very interested to hear ideas about these kinds of things. Thanks, --Andrew Whitworth _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
