Re: PXPerl 5.8.7-4 released with Windows binaries of Pugs 6.2.9

2005-08-08 Thread Grégoire Péan
Sorry Gmail hid your last email Robert. > I installed PXPerl. When I go to install DBD::SQLite I get "make errors" and > it won't install. Since I have never dealt with this on Windows, do I talk > to the PXPerl guy(s) or the DBD::SQLite guy? I am guessing that DBD::SQLite > doesn't like nmake or

Re: PXPerl 5.8.7-4 released with Windows binaries of Pugs 6.2.9

2005-08-08 Thread Grégoire Péan
Hello, As regards to the benefits over ActivePerl, yes, PXPerl is faster for most scripts, as perlbench reports it. Besides, PXPerl has many more modules already compiled and installed than ActivePerl has. And above all, PXPerl has Parrot and Pugs inside; if you want to play with Perl 6 language w

Re: Container model - pictures and questions

2005-08-08 Thread TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)
HaloO, Autrijus Tang wrote: If I'm mistaken, please let me know, preferably by suggesting new arrangements on the diagram. :-) Without judging your mistakes, here are my comments to the container picture. 1) I would move the ::name to the Pad level. The idea is that ::name is some less spe

Re: PXPerl 5.8.7-4 released with Windows binaries of Pugs 6.2.9

2005-08-08 Thread Robert
I guess I didn't post my question right. I installed PXPerl. When I go to install DBD::SQLite I get "make errors" and it won't install. Since I have never dealt with this on Windows, do I talk to the PXPerl guy(s) or the DBD::SQLite guy? I am guessing that DBD::SQLite doesn't like nmake or mingw o

Re: Container model - pictures and questions

2005-08-08 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 06:04:51PM +0200, "TSa (Thomas Sandla�)" wrote: > Autrijus Tang wrote: > >If I'm mistaken, please let me know, preferably by suggesting > >new arrangements on the diagram. :-) > > Without judging your mistakes, here are my comments to the > container picture. > > 1) I woul

Re: PXPerl 5.8.7-4 released with Windows binaries of Pugs 6.2.9

2005-08-08 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:39:41AM -0400, Robert wrote: > Here is a question out of ignorance then. I currently use ActiveState but > the ability to use CPAN vs PPM is kind of nice. Since AS only releases stuff > as binaries, they work. Since I have to compile with PXPerl am I going to > have probl

Re: PXPerl 5.8.7-4 released with Windows binaries of Pugs 6.2.9

2005-08-08 Thread Robert
Here is a question out of ignorance then. I currently use ActiveState but the ability to use CPAN vs PPM is kind of nice. Since AS only releases stuff as binaries, they work. Since I have to compile with PXPerl am I going to have problems with nmake on Windows (since most modules lean toward beind

Re: PXPerl 5.8.7-4 released with Windows binaries of Pugs 6.2.9

2005-08-08 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 08:58:39AM -0400, Robert wrote: > Just started here and I found PXPerl. What are the benefits of this over the > ActiveState version? Supposedly it's built with Intel C compiler, so it's a bit faster; also you can choose among VC++, GCC and Intel C to compile further CPAN m

Re: PXPerl 5.8.7-4 released with Windows binaries of Pugs 6.2.9

2005-08-08 Thread Robert
Just started here and I found PXPerl. What are the benefits of this over the ActiveState version? Robert

Re: Container model - pictures and questions

2005-08-08 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 10:58:01PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > What's missing from the description is that there's some form of > 'pointer' from a container to the cell it currently contains. > (I'm trying to avoid using the term reference.) I have updated the picture. It it marked as "(v2)":

Re: Container model - pictures and questions

2005-08-08 Thread Tim Bunce
[I'm going to be a little pedantic here because I think it's worth it given the need for clarity.] On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 12:55:53AM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote: > On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 12:43:13PM -0400, Matt Fowles wrote: > > The pictures are pretty and the compilation one makes a great deal of