[CVS ci] PLATFORMS

2004-02-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Please help me fill out the blanks by sending or committing patches. Please make sure to have the latest and best Parrot from CVS. Thanks, leo

Re: JIT branches under the Sun

2004-02-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Stephane Peiry wrote: Looking at it makes it pretty clear why it loops forever (mainly it jumps back to a load, loading always the same value). Yep. That's a bit complicated. The jit code tries to avoid loading/storing the same register from/to memory. This is achieved by remembering the size

Re: [PATCH] library/dumper.imc: self-referential data structures

2004-02-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jens Rieks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: again, here is a new patch for libraray/dumper.pmc. Thanks, applied. leo

[BUG] parrot bytecode (header?) problems in tru64/alpha

2004-02-23 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
I tried parrot in tru64/alpha after quite a while and it seems that something has gone rotten with the bytecode. The t/native_pbc/integer.t and the t/native_pbc/number.t both fail: t/native_pbc/integer# Failed test (t/native_pbc/integer.t at line 35) # got: 'PackFile_unpack: Not

Re: [BUG] parrot bytecode (header?) problems in tru64/alpha

2004-02-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jarkko Hietaniemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried parrot in tru64/alpha after quite a while and it seems that something has gone rotten with the bytecode. The t/native_pbc/integer.t and the t/native_pbc/number.t both fail: t/native_pbc/integer# Failed test (t/native_pbc/integer.t

Aborting testsuits

2004-02-23 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! I've got a soon-to-be-large testsuite (based on Test::More) that's testing (among other things) a DB. The tests are in various different small files. If there is a problem with the DB, I want the whole testsuite to stop, instead of running a lot of sure-to-fail tests. Is there a way to

Re: Aborting testsuits

2004-02-23 Thread Adrian Howard
On Monday, February 23, 2004, at 02:40 PM, Thomas Klausner wrote: [snip] Is there a way to abort a whole testsuite? [snip] Yup. Take a look at BAILOUT in Test::Builder. Doing: Test::More-builder-BAILOUT should stop Test::Harness in its tracks. Adrian

Re: Aborting testsuits

2004-02-23 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 05:01:54PM +, Adrian Howard wrote: On Monday, February 23, 2004, at 02:40 PM, Thomas Klausner wrote: [snip] Is there a way to abort a whole testsuite? [snip] Yup. Take a look at BAILOUT in Test::Builder. Doing: Test::More-builder-BAILOUT should

Re: Aborting testsuits

2004-02-23 Thread Adrian Howard
No idea :-) Mr Schwern? Adrian On Monday, February 23, 2004, at 07:04 PM, Thomas Klausner wrote: Hi! On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 05:01:54PM +, Adrian Howard wrote: On Monday, February 23, 2004, at 02:40 PM, Thomas Klausner wrote: [snip] Is there a way to abort a whole testsuite? [snip] Yup.

Re: Aborting testsuits

2004-02-23 Thread David Wheeler
On Feb 23, 2004, at 6:40 AM, Thomas Klausner wrote: Is there a way to abort a whole testsuite? I use control-c. David

Re: Distributed testing idea

2004-02-23 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 12:35:03PM +, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: See above. Yes, ssh is not portable enough. Well runs on Linux/Unix and Win32 has at least a client so which platforms is VMS the problem? VMS and Windows. While it exists for Windows, it typically isn't a simple command

Re: Distributed testing idea

2004-02-23 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 06:36:22AM -0600, Scott Bolte wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 01:07:38 -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote: See above. Yes, ssh is not portable enough. Where is the gap? I have OpenSSH on every Unix platform I use and, with cygwin's help, all the windows based

Objects and time

2004-02-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
Okay, I've just trodden on one of the nasty bits of objects, proper ordering of classes for initialization and destruction in the face of multiple inheritance. I'm doing the only sensible thing at the moment--I'm actively ignoring it. I've burned a few hours chasing down this rathole. So, the

Re: Objects and time

2004-02-23 Thread Leon Brocard
Dan Sugalski sent the following bits through the ether: So, the question--shall we do objects and maybe miss the Feb 29th release, or do the Feb 29th release and do objects for the next release? Objects please! Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/

Re: Objects and time

2004-02-23 Thread Melvin Smith
At 10:29 AM 2/23/2004 -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: So, the question--shall we do objects and maybe miss the Feb 29th release, or do the Feb 29th release and do objects for the next release? As I think I'm only a little while off (maybe a day or so) from getting it working, I'm tempted to take a

Re: Objects and time

2004-02-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, the question--shall we do objects and maybe miss the Feb 29th release, or do the Feb 29th release and do objects for the next release? As I think I'm only a little while off (maybe a day or so) from getting it working, Don't post intermediate state,

Re: Objects and time

2004-02-23 Thread Melvin Smith
At 05:09 PM 2/23/2004 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: WRT feature freeze: I'd say: Starting from Tue, 24th 8.00 GMT no more feature patches *should* go in, *except* objects. Basically that means: everyone will get really quiet and we will all watch Dan. :) -Melvin

Object notes

2004-02-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
As I wait for an interim setup to build... Here's the lowdown on what we're going to get with object: 1) Multiple Inheritance 2) Attributes 3) Object instantiation 4) Method calls Woo. What we won't get is: 1) Adding parents to a class that's been subclassed or instantiated 2) Adding attributes

MANIFEST updates?

2004-02-23 Thread Andrew Dougherty
Hoping to help fill out some blanks in the PLATFORM file, I updated (via rsync) my parrot files and stumbled across the following MANIFEST problems: Checking MANIFEST... No such file: imcc/imclexer.c No such file: imcc/imcparser.c No such file: imcc/imcparser.h No such file:

Re: Objects and time

2004-02-23 Thread Simon Glover
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Melvin Smith wrote: At 05:09 PM 2/23/2004 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: WRT feature freeze: I'd say: Starting from Tue, 24th 8.00 GMT no more feature patches *should* go in, *except* objects. Basically that means: everyone will get really quiet and we will all watch

Re: Objects and time

2004-02-23 Thread Jonathan Worthington
- Original Message - From: Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 3:29 PM Subject: Objects and time Okay, I've just trodden on one of the nasty bits of objects, proper ordering of classes for initialization and destruction in the face of

This week's summary delayed

2004-02-23 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
I'm afraid that this week's summary won't be posted until at least Wednesday. Sorry.

Re: [CVS ci] PLATFORMS

2004-02-23 Thread chromatic
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 01:30, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Please help me fill out the blanks by sending or committing patches. Please make sure to have the latest and best Parrot from CVS. I have a platform not listed. Where should I look for the appropriate information? -- c

Tetris (was: Objects and time)

2004-02-23 Thread Jens Rieks
Hi, Am Montag, 23. Februar 2004 17:09 schrieb Leopold Toetsch: WRT feature freeze: I'd say: Starting from Tue, 24th 8.00 GMT no more feature patches *should* go in, *except* objects. can/should go the tetris example go in? I'am writing documentation at the moment. Converting the example to use

Re: [CVS ci] PLATFORMS

2004-02-23 Thread Jonathan Worthington
Leo, [did try to send off list, but it bounced] Please help me fill out the blanks by sending or committing patches. Please make sure to have the latest and best Parrot from CVS. Earlier today you popped a new file in CVS called PLATFORMS. Unfortunately, there is also a directory there called

Re: MANIFEST updates?

2004-02-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Andrew Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No such file: imcc/imclexer.c No such file: imcc/imcparser.c No such file: imcc/imcparser.h No such file: languages/cola/lexer.c No such file: languages/cola/parser.c No such file: languages/cola/parser.h These files are in MANIFEST and in the

Re: [PATCH] Re: [perl #25239] Platform-specific files not granular enough

2004-02-23 Thread Jonathan Worthington
- Original Message - From: Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jonathan Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 11:51 AM Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [perl #25239] Platform-specific files not granular enough Jonathan Worthington [EMAIL

[perl #27003] bytecode (header?) problem in tru64/alpha

2004-02-23 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jarkko Hietaniemi # Please include the string: [perl #27003] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=27003 From a freshly rsynced copy in tru64/alpha (*): $ ./parrot

Re: [perl #27015] [PATCH classes/parrotobject.pmc] Include Invalid Attribute Name in Exception

2004-02-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:40 AM -0800 2/23/04, chromatic (via RT) wrote: # New Ticket Created by chromatic Hi there, This patch made it slightly easier for me to debug errors in my code. It may require tweaking to remove the newline, but these exceptions print much more prettily with it. Applied, thanks. (Though I'm

Re: [PATCH classes/parrotobject.pmc] Include Invalid Attribute Name in Exception

2004-02-23 Thread chromatic
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 11:50, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 11:40 AM -0800 2/23/04, chromatic (via RT) wrote: This patch made it slightly easier for me to debug errors in my code. It may require tweaking to remove the newline, but these exceptions print much more prettily with it. Applied, thanks.

Re: PDD status

2004-02-23 Thread Simon Glover
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Michael Scott wrote: All that metadata up front in the PDDs is a bit off-putting. I'm thinking of going through all of them and putting it at the end. Any objections? Well, I've just committed the version I posted pretty much as-is, but feel free to make any changes to

Re: MANIFEST updates?

2004-02-23 Thread Andrew Dougherty
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Andrew Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No such file: imcc/imclexer.c No such file: imcc/imcparser.c No such file: imcc/imcparser.h No such file: languages/cola/lexer.c No such file: languages/cola/parser.c No such file:

[perl #26911] Failing tests on Linux/x86

2004-02-23 Thread Simon Glover
I sent this a few days ago, but RT doesn't seem to have forwarded it to the list for some reason. Simon -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:21:19 -0500 (EST) From: Simon Glover [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Failing tests on Linux/x86 I'm

[perl #27015] [PATCH classes/parrotobject.pmc] Include Invalid Attribute Name in Exception

2004-02-23 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by chromatic # Please include the string: [perl #27015] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=27015 Hi there, This patch made it slightly easier for me to debug errors in my code.

Re: PDD 11 -- extensions

2004-02-23 Thread Simon Glover
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Mattia Barbon wrote: Il Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:12:40 -0500 (EST) Simon Glover [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Here's a first draft of PDD 11. It's based on a combination of the existing extend.pod and the comments in extend.c, with additional text by yours truly. It

Re: JIT branches under the Sun

2004-02-23 Thread Stephane Peiry
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:07:48AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Yep. That's a bit complicated. The jit code tries to avoid loading/storing the same register from/to memory. Actually on this, while looking at what jit on i386 would give for this particular loop, just noticed it does quite a lot

Re: Tetris

2004-02-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jens Rieks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Am Montag, 23. Februar 2004 17:09 schrieb Leopold Toetsch: WRT feature freeze: I'd say: Starting from Tue, 24th 8.00 GMT no more feature patches *should* go in, *except* objects. can/should go the tetris example go in? If its running yes. I've to

Re: [CVS ci] PLATFORMS

2004-02-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 01:30, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Please help me fill out the blanks by sending or committing patches. Please make sure to have the latest and best Parrot from CVS. I have a platform not listed. Then lets add it. The list is for sure not

Re: [CVS ci] PLATFORMS

2004-02-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jonathan Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leo, [did try to send off list, but it bounced] Please help me fill out the blanks by sending or committing patches. Please make sure to have the latest and best Parrot from CVS. Earlier today you popped a new file in CVS called PLATFORMS.

Re: [perl #26911] Failing tests on Linux/x86

2004-02-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Simon Glover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sent this a few days ago, but RT doesn't seem to have forwarded it to the list for some reason. Can you cvs update and try again please. GC related bugs should be fixed now. Simon Thanks, leo

Re: JIT branches under the Sun

2004-02-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Stephane Peiry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:07:48AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Yep. That's a bit complicated. The jit code tries to avoid loading/storing the same register from/to memory. Actually on this, while looking at what jit on i386 would give for this

Re: [CVS ci] PLATFORMS

2004-02-23 Thread Michael Scott
I have this problem too. cvs [update aborted]: could not chdir to platforms: Not a directory Same problem even if I do a new check out. cvs [checkout aborted]: could not chdir to parrot/platforms: Not a directory There is no local platforms directory, yet CVS wants to go to it, so I assume

[perl #27026] [PATCH] Native exec doc

2004-02-23 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Adam Thomason # Please include the string: [perl #27026] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=27026 Attached patch adds user documentation for the native object execution

Re: Tetris

2004-02-23 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 08:03:02PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Jens Rieks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Am Montag, 23. Februar 2004 17:09 schrieb Leopold Toetsch: WRT feature freeze: I'd say: Starting from Tue, 24th 8.00 GMT no more feature patches *should* go in, *except* objects.

Re: [perl #26911] Failing tests on Linux/x86

2004-02-23 Thread Simon Glover
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Simon Glover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sent this a few days ago, but RT doesn't seem to have forwarded it to the list for some reason. Can you cvs update and try again please. GC related bugs should be fixed now. I'm still getting the

Re: Objects and time

2004-02-23 Thread Harry Jackson
Leon Brocard wrote: Dan Sugalski sent the following bits through the ether: Objects please! I would second that. I would prefer a cool release to a cool date ;-) Harry Jackson

Re: [perl #25960] [PATCH] COWed stack bug (was IMCC - PerlArray getting trounced)

2004-02-23 Thread Luke Palmer
Leopold Toetsch writes: Matt Fowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch make the problem case submitted by Jeff Clites work. All tests pass, and his sample has been added to the tests. struct RegisterChunkBuf* top = stack-top; if (top-used 1) { +top-used--;

Re: Aborting testsuits

2004-02-23 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 08:04:14PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote: Is there any reason why BAIL_OUT is marked as unimplemented in the Test::More docs? Because it is, in Test::More. I've yet to need it. Nobody's given me a patch to implement it. -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Aborting testsuits

2004-02-23 Thread Andy Lester
Because it is, in Test::More. I've yet to need it. Nobody's given me a patch to implement it. And T::H doesn't recognize anything like that either? -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Aborting testsuits

2004-02-23 Thread Adrian Howard
On Monday, February 23, 2004, at 10:46 PM, Andy Lester wrote: Because it is, in Test::More. I've yet to need it. Nobody's given me a patch to implement it. And T::H doesn't recognize anything like that either? From perldoc test::Harness =item BBail out! As an emergency measure, a test script

Re: [CVS ci] PLATFORMS

2004-02-23 Thread Will Coleda
my .cvsrc has update -dP, and I still get the same problem with the platforms directory. (OS X) On Monday, February 23, 2004, at 04:50 PM, Michael Scott wrote: I have this problem too. cvs [update aborted]: could not chdir to platforms: Not a directory Same problem even if I do a new check

Re: [CVS ci] PLATFORMS

2004-02-23 Thread chromatic
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 11:00, Leopold Toetsch wrote: ... Where should I look for the appropriate information? Create a platform name similar to existing ones. F./myconfig and the output from Configure.pl + test results/skips should provide the information to fill the line :) I think this

uc import

2004-02-23 Thread Brent \Dax\ Royal-Gordon
(Apologies if this is a repeat--I tried to send something on the same subject a few days ago, but apparently it didn't get through.) A few weeks ago, my father and I were discussing Perl. (He is a professional programmer of about twenty-five years; the last seven or so have been spent