On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:54:10PM +0200, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote:
> It shouldn't be too hard to write a Perl 5 script, to be run as > part of Rakudo's build process, that automatically updates the > leap-second table in tai-utc.pm. Dogfood failure. That should be a Perl 6 script. Yes, really, I'm serious about this, and the importance of this. Whilst Perl 5 isn't self-hosting, it builds a perl interpreter as early as possible and uses that for the rest of the build system. This a: makes it easier for more end users to be able to fix things that hurt them, increasing the pool of potential core contributors b: ensures that the core contributors are end uses of the language they maintain I think one weakness of Parrot is that it uses almost no Parrot-based language in its own build system. You need to know Perl 5 or C to be useful to the Parrot core. And if you gain your fun by working on the Parrot core, you actually stop being a Parrot user, and hence experiencing what they experience. Nicholas Clark
