[perl #43008] [PATCH] docs/tests.pod: Expand discussion of testing of Perl 5 components of Parrot

2007-05-21 Thread James Keenan via RT
Applied in r18617.

[perl #43008] [PATCH] docs/tests.pod: Expand discussion of testing of Perl 5 components of Parrot

2007-05-21 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Mon May 21 18:58:45 2007, allison at perl.org wrote: > Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT wrote: > > > > When hearing 'executables' I primarily think of compiled programs, e.g. > > compiled C-programs. Personally I'd call the *.pl files simple scripts. > > Agreed, *.pl isn't an executable. Script wo

Re: [svn:parrot] r18615 - trunk/docs/dev

2007-05-21 Thread chromatic
On Monday 21 May 2007 18:20:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Author: particle > Date: Mon May 21 18:20:52 2007 > New Revision: 18615 > > Modified: >trunk/docs/dev/pccmethods.pod > > Log: > add a note about PCCRETURN expanding to more than one line > Modified: trunk/docs/dev/pccmethods.pod >

[svn:parrot-pdd] r18616 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2007-05-21 Thread allison
Author: allison Date: Mon May 21 19:22:33 2007 New Revision: 18616 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd17_pmc.pod Log: [pdd]: Adding comments to PMC PDD on subclassing low-level PMCs from high-level classes. Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd17_pmc.pod ==

Re: [perl #43008] [PATCH] docs/tests.pod: Expand discussion of testing of Perl 5 components of Parrot

2007-05-21 Thread Allison Randal
Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT wrote: When hearing 'executables' I primarily think of compiled programs, e.g. compiled C-programs. Personally I'd call the *.pl files simple scripts. Agreed, *.pl isn't an executable. Script works, or program. Allison

PMC architecture discussion

2007-05-21 Thread Allison Randal
I've been reviewing the PMC proposals on hand to finish off the PMC PDD. Here are a few thoughts on the matter, for mailing list discussion. Overall, the current structure of PMCs is sound, and allows a good bit of flexibility. I'd like to do away with the PMC_DATA_IN_EXT flag so the "DPOINTER

Re: [RFC] extension guessing, functionally better loader behavior -> working install target

2007-05-21 Thread Allison Randal
Mike Mattie wrote: loader : a bit-mask selecting loaders to be included in the search. This arguement is passed by reference. When a matching file is found the value of loader is reset to the flag for the loader under which it was found.

[perl #43008] [PATCH] docs/tests.pod: Expand discussion of testing of Perl 5 components of Parrot

2007-05-21 Thread Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT
On So. 20. Mai 2007, 15:45:56, jkeen at verizon.net wrote: > The patch attached reflects the approach we've been taking over the > last half-year or so in testing the Perl 5 components of Parrot. > Feedback encouraged. Thanks, patch applied in r18608. My $0.02: When hearing 'executables' I

Re: Parrot Project Management...

2007-05-21 Thread Will Coleda
On May 21, 2007, at 7:03 PM, Mark Glines wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007 18:51:48 -0400 Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you notice any missing documentation, please open an RT ticket with [DOCS] in the subject. ((It won't be processed specially by RT, but will help me search.)) Ask on the

Re: POD Coverage

2007-05-21 Thread James E Keenan
Mark Glines wrote: Ok. Thanks for the feedback. Lets see what I can do with it... First. Frankly, I don't care about the *style* of POD in use, just that there *is* some. "Well-formedness" for me comes down to parsability, not style. So Perl::Critic can GTFOMI. :) And there already is a

Re: POD Coverage (was: Parrot Project Management...)

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Glines
On Mon, 21 May 2007 19:27:26 -0400 James E Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Glines wrote: > > > > Think its worth adding a > > codingstd test for POD coverage? > > > > > > No. > > Or perhaps: No, not unless you want to start a big "philosophical" > argument about POD coverage. > > I

Re: POD Coverage (was: Parrot Project Management...)

2007-05-21 Thread James E Keenan
Mark Glines wrote: Think its worth adding a codingstd test for POD coverage? No. Or perhaps: No, not unless you want to start a big "philosophical" argument about POD coverage. I say this as someone who dissents from the prevailing wisdom about POD coverage as it relates to CPAN module

Re: Parrot Project Management...

2007-05-21 Thread James E Keenan
Will Coleda wrote: If you notice any missing documentation, please open an RT ticket with [DOCS] in the subject. ((It won't be processed specially by RT, but will help me search.)) Ask on the list. Send patches, either to the parrot repo or the website. If we're proposing revisions to ex

Re: Parrot Project Management...

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Glines
On Mon, 21 May 2007 18:51:48 -0400 Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you notice any missing documentation, please open an RT ticket > with [DOCS] in the subject. ((It won't be processed specially by RT, > but will help me search.)) Ask on the list. Send patches, either to > the parr

new FAQs

2007-05-21 Thread Will Coleda
I was talking to a colleague (who wishes to remain anonymous), and s/ he had a list of questions about the state of parrot that I think should end up in the FAQ or elsewhere in the repo. I wanted to post them here to get some discussion - I don't have answers to many of these questions mysel

Parrot Project Management...

2007-05-21 Thread Will Coleda
My primary goal as project manager is to improve the state of documentation of parrot. Everything from the code (to lower the bar to new contributors), the docs (for parrot users and HLL authors), the plan (milestones, tickets, etc.), etc. If you notice any missing documentation, please o

Freeze/thaw; bus error

2007-05-21 Thread Will Coleda
Given this code, which requires that you've built languages/tcl: .sub main :main load_bytecode 'languages/tcl/runtime/tcllib.pir' $P1 = compreg 'PIR' $P2 = $P1(<<'EO_PIR') .HLL 'Tcl', '' .sub '_anon' :anon '&namespace'('eval', 'tcltest', "set a 1;proc b {} {}") print "ok\n" .end EO_PIR

Re: *.dev = docs/dev/*.pod ??

2007-05-21 Thread Allison Randal
Paul Cochrane wrote: Hi all, I've been reading through some of the pdd's and have noticed mention of *.dev files for actual implementation of features. I'm fairly sure these are actually the pod files under docs/dev, but I just wanted to make sure of this before I make the pdd's point to the fi

Re: [perl #37303] [PATCH] Relaxing parrot dependency on parrot_config

2007-05-21 Thread chromatic
On Saturday 01 October 2005 02:26:21 Nick Glencross wrote: > > I've been wanting to relax the dependency that parrot's core has on > > parrot_config. > I'm not sure that the patch made it into RT. Here it is again, with a > small tweak to a Makefile dependency. > src/config.c will need to be 'sv

Parrot Bug Summary

2007-05-21 Thread Parrot Bug Summary
Parrot Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/parrot/Overview.html Generated at Mon May 21 13:00:03 2007 GMT --- * Numbers * New Issues * Overview of Open Issues * Ticket Status By Version * Requestors with m

[perl #43006] [NEW] Tail call force-frees current context

2007-05-21 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by B. Geron # Please include the string: [perl #43006] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=43006 > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When there is a tail call without parameters,

[perl #43003] [PATCH] added vim-folding for POD and PGE to MANIFEST.generated

2007-05-21 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Kay-Uwe Huell # Please include the string: [perl #43003] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=43003 > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Parrot-Team, I had forgotten to add

[perl #43002] [PATCH] Minor enhancements for kate syntax highlighting

2007-05-21 Thread Mehmet Yavuz Selim Soyturk
# New Ticket Created by "Mehmet Yavuz Selim Soyturk" # Please include the string: [perl #43002] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=43002 > file: editor/kate_syntax.pl * .ops files are now searched in the correc