Re: Monthly Release Schedule

2005-04-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
MrJoltCola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:24 PM 4/6/2005, Chip Salzenberg wrote: * What platforms are required for release? I'd guess that we'd get almost of all of our developers (and users, for that matter) with: darwin linux-x86-gcc3.* win32-ms-cl You should

Re: [PROPOSAL] calling convention abstraction

2005-04-07 Thread Roger Hale
Leopold Toetsch wrote: Roger Hale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leopold Toetsch wrote: As @ARGS (or @IN_ARGS, @OUT_ARGS) is being stored in the context, and that context is defacto the continuation, yes - a tail-call would inherit this information. But as each tail-call supplies a new @ARGS, how can

Re: Monthly Release Schedule

2005-04-07 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 22:28 -0400, Chip Salzenberg wrote: According to MrJoltCola: At 06:24 PM 4/6/2005, Chip Salzenberg wrote: * What platforms are required for release? I'd guess that we'd get almost of all of our developers (and users, for that matter) with: darwin

Re: Monthly Release Schedule

2005-04-07 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Chip Salzenberg wrote: According to MrJoltCola: At 06:24 PM 4/6/2005, Chip Salzenberg wrote: * What platforms are required for release? I'd guess that we'd get almost of all of our developers (and users, for that matter) with: darwin linux-x86-gcc3.*

Re: Monthly Release Schedule

2005-04-07 Thread MrJoltCola
At 03:21 AM 4/7/2005, Leopold Toetsch wrote: MrJoltCola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:24 PM 4/6/2005, Chip Salzenberg wrote: * What platforms are required for release? I'd guess that we'd get almost of all of our developers (and users, for that matter) with: darwin

Configuration (was Re: Monthly Release Schedule)

2005-04-07 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to MrJoltCola: I can tell you now Sparc / GCC is broken for most due to our broken Configure. Our config pulls out the params that were used to build Perl with, and this is invalid because most Sparc folks are running a pre-built Perl and GCC binary that was built on a distributor's

Re: Monthly Release Schedule

2005-04-07 Thread Jeff Horwitz
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, MrJoltCola wrote: Where did Tinderbox go anyway? I don't mind running a tinderclient at all. i ran a tinderclient on my ultra 60 for a while before the tinderbox went away. i think i was the only solaris box out there, and i'd be more than happy to run it again when and if

Re: more ICU notes

2005-04-07 Thread François PERRAD
At 11:03 05/04/2005 +0200, you wrote: Please verify the build on Windows platforms, $ perl Configure.pl -cc=gcc --without-icu $ mingw32-make Build OK with MinGW. Francois thanks leo

Parrot Segmentation Fault

2005-04-07 Thread Cory Spencer
The latest Parrot CVS checkout segfaults for me on the following code: .sub _main .local pmc foo foo = new Integer foo = 3 # new_pad 0 store_lex foo, foo end .end It appears that the store_lex opcode is to blame - when no lexical pad has been created and you

[PATCH] update pcre example + libraries + tests

2005-04-07 Thread jerry gay
i've attached a patch to update the pcre example, libraries, and added some documentation and simple tests. notably, the pcre library now uses current calling conventions, and is designed to work on win32 and unix. i do not have a unix test environment, so please test there before applying. if

Re: Monthly Release Schedule

2005-04-07 Thread Peter Sinnott
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:59:41AM -0400, Jeff Horwitz wrote: On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, MrJoltCola wrote: Where did Tinderbox go anyway? I don't mind running a tinderclient at all. i ran a tinderclient on my ultra 60 for a while before the tinderbox went away. i think i was the only solaris

Re: Monthly Release Schedule

2005-04-07 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Peter Sinnott: I set up a tinder server a couple of weeks ago. Not sure if anyone else looks at it. http://unlinked.vm.bytemark.co.uk/tinder//parrot/status.html I understand that tinderbox is an automated system for test builds with result collation. Is there any need for a

Re: [PATCH] update pcre example + libraries + tests

2005-04-07 Thread jerry gay
wouldn't you know it... i upload the wrong patch. here's the correct one, with all tests passing on win32. On Apr 7, 2005 9:00 AM, jerry gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've attached a patch to update the pcre example, libraries, and added some documentation and simple tests. notably, the pcre

Re: Monthly Release Schedule

2005-04-07 Thread MrJoltCola
At 12:32 PM 4/7/2005, Chip Salzenberg wrote: According to Peter Sinnott: I set up a tinder server a couple of weeks ago. Not sure if anyone else looks at it. http://unlinked.vm.bytemark.co.uk/tinder//parrot/status.html I understand that tinderbox is an automated system for test builds with

Re: Configuration (was Re: Monthly Release Schedule)

2005-04-07 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Chip Salzenberg wrote: Is there already a configuration roadmap, something for me to start with as I look to What Should Be? I'm not aware of one. There's been lots of discussion over the years both on the perl6-internals list and on the now-defunct perl6-build list, but but

Re: Configuration (was Re: Monthly Release Schedule)

2005-04-07 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Chip Salzenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to MrJoltCola: I can tell you now Sparc / GCC is broken for most due to our broken Configure. Our config pulls out the params that were used to build Perl with, and this is invalid because most Sparc folks are running a pre-built Perl

Re: Configuration (was Monthly Release Schedule)

2005-04-07 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon: From what I recall, we're planning a bootstrapping system. The configuration/build system will be written in a Parrot language (possibly, but not necessarily, Perl 6), with PBC files included in the distribution. To bootstrap, we'll have

across language question

2005-04-07 Thread bloves
# test_pbc.php ?php function test_pbc(){ print hello parrot; } ? if compile test_pbc.php to test_pbc.pbc then how use this pbc for perl. #!/usr/bin/perl use test_pbc; # ? test_pbc(); # ?

Re: [PROPOSAL] calling convention abstraction

2005-04-07 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Roger Hale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 04:23:41 -0400 Leopold Toetsch wrote: Roger Hale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leopold Toetsch wrote: As @ARGS (or @IN_ARGS, @OUT_ARGS) is being stored in the context, and that context is defacto the continuation,

Re: Monthly Release Schedule

2005-04-07 Thread Robert Spier
It was on parrotcode or dev.perl.org at some point. Maybe that can be reused? Our tinderbox.perl.org volunteer is working on it. We've been nudging him, and he's got some cool stuff going on.

Subversion in the wings

2005-04-07 Thread Robert Spier
Due to popular demand, among many other reasons, parrot will be switching to Subversion at some point in the next few days. I've placed a test conversion at https://svn.perl.org/parrot-test/ (It mirrors the state of the CVS repository as of this morning.) Please take a look at it, and make

Dynamic Perl, Part 1 [IMCC]

2005-04-07 Thread William Coleda
There are two open tickets about removing the core's dependance on Perl* PMCs, and instead, making them dynamically loadable and using the language agnostic PMCs for internal use. Talking about this with Leo on IRC, he expressed an interest in getting these changes in chunks to make them a

Re: Subversion in the wings

2005-04-07 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Robert Spier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any questions? I assume current committer bits will be transitioned over too? -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better.

Re: Subversion in the wings

2005-04-07 Thread Robert Spier
Any questions? I assume current committer bits will be transitioned over too? Actually, this would be a great time to get signed committer agreements from everyone. But, since that probably isn't going to happen, I'll just move over all the bits. -R