(1) ./README should mention perldoc . ("perldoc -F"?) README points people at docs/parrot.pod and docs/intro.pod. While perldoc is currently mentioned somewhere in the pods, by the time folks see that, they've already been challenged - ".pod? what's a .pod? how do i read a .pod?". Even perl folks may only rarely deal directly with .pod files, using their derived man pages instead. And we're going to have non-perl visitors. So it seems worth also mentioning perldoc in the README itself.
(2) As of this morning's parrot_2004-02-28_080000, on linux x86, I'm still getting these compiler warnings while make'ing parrot: src/interpreter.c: In function `runops_int': src/interpreter.c:824: warning: enumeration value `PARROT_FUNCTION_CORE' not handled in switch src/embed.c: In function `Parrot_runcode': src/embed.c:664: warning: enumeration value `PARROT_FUNCTION_CORE' not handled in switch ops/io.ops: In function `Parrot_tell_i_i_p': ops/io.ops:507: warning: right shift count >= width of type ops/core_ops_prederef.c ops/io.ops: In function `Parrot_pred_tell_i_i_p': ops/io.ops:507: warning: right shift count >= width of type ops/core_ops_switch.c ops/io.ops: In function `switch_core': ops/io.ops:507: warning: right shift count >= width of type ops/core_ops_cg.c ops/io.ops: In function `cg_core': ops/io.ops:507: warning: right shift count >= width of type ops/core_ops_cgp.c ops/io.ops: In function `cgp_core': ops/io.ops:507: warning: right shift count >= width of type The first two at least might be easy to stomp on. Mitchell