Parrot installs with a relatively large group of PBC libraries in runtime/parrot/library/*. Some of these such as distutils and nciutils are pretty important prerequisites for many other ecosystem projects. Distutils relies on a variety of libraries (osutils, lwp, http, archive, etc) to do it's work so they are used anywhere distutils is.
There are some libraries, on the other hand, that I can't really find anywhere that they are used. Some of the libraries we offer are extremely old, written in very old PIR (or even raw PASM!) syntax. They are not easy to maintain and are not really serving as good examples for how to write a language-agnostic bytecode library for Parrot's ecosystem. In addition building all these files that nobody uses adds to the total build time, and tests for these libraries add non-negligible time to "make test". I propose we review these libraries. The ones that aren't being used should be deleted or moved out to external repos. The ones that are being used may be good candidates to re-write in something better than PIR (Winxed and NQP are obvious alternatives). Here's a quick initial list of libraries that I think we can delete or move to an external location: GCI Iter Math OpenGL Parrot (runtime/parrot/library/Parrot, not the VM) parrotlib Pg Range SDL Stream String Tcl I would love to hear what other people think about these files. --Andrew Whitworth _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
