On Nov 28, 2007 7:31 PM, C.J. Adams-Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 18:12 +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 06:06:14PM +0100, James Fuller wrote: > > > there seems to be a dearth of xml 'ness' in Perl 6 design ... perhaps > > > before Perl 6 is fully baked its time to review what could live in the > > > core versus an external module. > > > > > > thoughts? > > > > If I remember the plan correctly, it's roughly that the core consists only > > of > > the mechanisms for getting and installing other extension modules - anything > > that doesn't need to be in the core, isn't. > > > > This slim core intentionally won't be useful for that much, other than the > > basis for building larger Perl 6 distributions aimed at broad types of > > tasks. > > James, > > Perhaps you should create a "distribution" for xml processing? If there > is not yet a Standard Operating Procedure for creating a perl 6 > distribution, I think the community would benefit from the creation of > such. Start small, with only enough to do a simple XML processing task. > Allow for inheritence/extension of the distribution.
I see these 'distributions' as deployment profiles. It would be very easy to package up (more akin to customizing a linux distro) perl6 with all those lovely XML pm tweaking here and there, etc. in the meantime, I have yet to get latest trunk perl6 running properly, on parrot, or freebsd then I will start thinking of such a task (everything compiles fine). as an aside I am getting an; "load_bytecode" couldn't find file 'Protoobject.pbc' current instr.: 'parrot;PGE::Match;__onload' pc 0 (compilers/pge/PGE/Match.pir:14) called from Sub 'parrot;Perl6::Compiler;__onload' pc 0 (perl6.pir:30) called from Sub 'parrot;Perl6::Compiler;main' pc -1 ((unknown file):-1) also I do not want to emulate perl6 in perl5; will try on the OSX box now. cheers, Jim Fuller
