On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 09:50:49PM -0500, Peter Schwenn wrote: > I've spent a couple of days trying out Cygwin, MinGW, PXPerl, and other > Windows based contexts, in order to build Pugs w/Embedded Parrot. I've > learned a lot about configuration and little else. > > Would I be right in supposing that most people working on Perl6 and > Parrot development, and spend relatively little time jiggering configs > and makes, are working under Linux on i386 machines? (excluding a few > who have had plenty of time to get a VS6/7 or Cygwin or ... environment > straightened out.) >
These problems have come and gone over the years as people have taken up the challenge of making Parrot compile and pass its tests on their system. I believe, however, that we've only seen the tip of the iceberg as I don't recall complaints or patches regarding Parrot compiles on z/OS, VMS, BeOS, or some of the other OS's that Perl 5 currently supports. My hope and expectation is that as th various Perl 6 projects start to look more like the end product, more of these issues will come up. I also expect that more active developers will be picked up along the way to deal wtih these problems. So, for me, I'm concerned, but I surely expect that none of these problems on Win32 based systems current is an indication of the level of support to expect from these systems in the future. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
