Keeping buzz going

2008-01-03 Thread Andy Lester
http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/35272 http://perlbuzz.com/2008/01/flurry-of-perl-6-activity-picks-up-new-contributor.html Lots of cool stuff is going on, and I'm so so glad to see it. I'm thinking of making a Perl 6-specific column in Perlbuzz, because I'd like to have a one-stop shop

RE: [perl #43269] [BUG] setline is tied to PIR source

2008-01-03 Thread Allam Reddy, Thomas
I would like to get unsubscribed from this list. Please help me. Thanks & Regards, Thomas Reddy A "The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know" -Original Message- From: Patrick R. Michaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 12:05 PM To: Bob Rogers Cc:

Re: [perl #43269] [BUG] setline is tied to PIR source

2008-01-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 09:40:23PM -0500, Bob Rogers wrote: >From: "Patrick R. Michaud via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:29:35 -0800 > >On Wed Jun 20 16:23:40 2007, pmichaud wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 12:08:33AM +0100, Jonathan Worthington wrote: >>

[perl #49364] [CAGE]: Eliminate $data{args} from configuration step class initializers

2008-01-03 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by James Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #49364] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49364 > The Parrot configuration step classes (config/*/*.pm) each have an initializer routine

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r24108 - in trunk: . docs/pdds

2008-01-03 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:15:40 +0200 Bob Rogers wrote: > Thought so. I ask because Common Lisp has provision for anonymous > classes, and I was wondering how I might support that some day. But my > interest is just academic curiosity a

[perl #43269] [BUG] setline is tied to PIR source

2008-01-03 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Patrick R. Michaud via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:29:35 -0800 On Wed Jun 20 16:23:40 2007, pmichaud wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 12:08:33AM +0100, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > > > > Currently HLL debug info stuff is spec'd, but not implemented.

[perl #49356] [BUG]: t/stm/basic_mt.t hangs indefinitely

2008-01-03 Thread James Keenan via RT
The test file itself has not been substantively changed in several months, so it's not the test itself that's causing the problem.

[perl #49356] [BUG]: t/stm/basic_mt.t hangs indefinitely

2008-01-03 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by James Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #49356] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49356 > [li11-226:parrot] 502 $ prove -v t/stm/basic_mt.t t/stm/basic_mt1..4 ok 1 - wait (si

[perl #43134] [TODO] Find a generalised way to determine location of Fink

2008-01-03 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Sat Dec 29 09:14:40 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If there is no objection, I will apply this to trunk within a week. No one objected, so I applied this patch to trunk in r24517.

[perl #49308] [BUG]: config/auto/alignptrs.pm fails if required alignment > 1

2008-01-03 Thread James Keenan via RT
Applied a combination of Andy's patch and mine in r24516.

Re: [svn:parrot] r24497 - in trunk: languages/lolcode/src/parser tools/dev

2008-01-03 Thread James E Keenan
chromatic wrote: On Thursday 03 January 2008 12:05:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Log: Add copyright statement to file which lacked it; t/codingstd/copyright.t should once again pass. Modified: trunk/languages/lolcode/src/parser/actions.pm =

Fuel for the GC PDD

2008-01-03 Thread chromatic
"Scalable Locality-Conscious Multithreaded Memory Allocation" http://people.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/papers/ismm06.pdf

Re: [svn:parrot] r24497 - in trunk: languages/lolcode/src/parser tools/dev

2008-01-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:39:54PM -0800, chromatic wrote: > On Thursday 03 January 2008 12:05:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -# Copyright (c) 2007, The Perl Foundation > > +# Copyright (C) 2001-2008, The Perl Foundation. > > # $Id$ > > I'm not sure this is legal. Certainly TPF holds a copyrigh

Re: [perl #49308] [BUG]: config/auto/alignptrs.pm fails if required alignment > 1

2008-01-03 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, James Keenan via RT wrote: > (Neglected to CC to list first time through.) > > Can you try this patch? Oops. Crossed in the mail. I just sent a much simpler version in. At a glance, yours should also work, so I guess it really doesn't matter. -- Andy Dougherty

[PATCH] Re: [perl #49308] config/auto/alignptrs.pm fails if required alignment > 1

2008-01-03 Thread Andy Dougherty
> Here's the output of Configure.pl --verbose on a SPARC where the required > alignment is 4. The test correctly deduces that alignments of 64, 32, 16, > 8, and 4 all work, but apparently throws that information away when the 2 > and 1 byte alignment tests fail. And here's a simple patch to f

[perl #49274] [CAGE] script to generate ports/debian/parrot-doc.docs

2008-01-03 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Thu Jan 03 04:57:22 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The difference here is that you can only generate Debian packages on a > Debian-based system, so portability to non-Linux systems isn't a concern. > D'oh. My oversight.

[perl #49308] [BUG]: config/auto/alignptrs.pm fails if required alignment > 1

2008-01-03 Thread James Keenan via RT
(Neglected to CC to list first time through.) Can you try this patch? diff.alignptrs.pm Description: Perl program

Re: [svn:parrot] r24497 - in trunk: languages/lolcode/src/parser tools/dev

2008-01-03 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 03 January 2008 12:05:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Log: > Add copyright statement to file which lacked it; t/codingstd/copyright.t > should once again pass. > > Modified: trunk/languages/lolcode/src/parser/actions.pm > ==

Re: [perl #49274] [CAGE] script to generate ports/debian/parrot-doc.docs

2008-01-03 Thread ajr
> James E Keenan wrote: >> >> For portability reasons, however, shouldn't it be converted to Perl 5? > > The difference here is that you can only generate Debian packages on a > Debian-based system, so portability to non-Linux systems isn't a concern. > That was my assumption. (Along with the need

Re: [svn:parrot] r24439 - in trunk/languages/perl6: . config/makefiles

2008-01-03 Thread jerry gay
On Jan 2, 2008 3:51 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 02 January 2008 08:39:51 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Modified: > >trunk/languages/perl6/ (props changed) > >trunk/languages/perl6/config/makefiles/root.in > > > > Log: > > [perl6] > > - add suffixe .exe on Win3

Re: [perl #47391] Current status on Solaris 8/SPARC

2008-01-03 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, James E Keenan wrote: > Andy Dougherty wrote: > > After fixing various minor little things, here's where I stand > > on Solaris 8/SPARC after the recent changes. > > > > Failed TestStat Wstat Total Fail List of Failed > > > >

Re: [perl #49274] [CAGE] script to generate ports/debian/parrot-doc.docs

2008-01-03 Thread Allison Randal
James E Keenan wrote: For portability reasons, however, shouldn't it be converted to Perl 5? I don't think we proceed on the assumption that all our target OSes can handle shell. The difference here is that you can only generate Debian packages on a Debian-based system, so portability to no

Re: [perl #49274] [CAGE] script to generate ports/debian/parrot-doc.docs

2008-01-03 Thread James E Keenan
Allison Randal wrote: Alan Rocker wrote: I've attached a quickie shell script, in case that's what you want. It's a naive little thing, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. Good start. Committed in r24479, with a small change to run it from the top-level directory instead of tool

Re: [perl #49274] [CAGE] script to generate ports/debian/parrot-doc.docs

2008-01-03 Thread Allison Randal
Alan Rocker wrote: I've attached a quickie shell script, in case that's what you want. It's a naive little thing, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. Good start. Committed in r24479, with a small change to run it from the top-level directory instead of tools/dev. A little extra po

[perl #49328] [BUG] problem between PBC loading and garbage collection

2008-01-03 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by François PERRAD # Please include the string: [perl #49328] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49328 > I've isolated one problem between PBC loading and garbage collection. (remember: on

[perl #49238] [PATCH] pbc_to_exe compile failure on Win32 / MSVC9

2008-01-03 Thread Cosimo Streppone via RT
On Mer. 02 Gen. 2008 05:40:32, cosimo wrote: > On Lun. 31 Dic. 2007 01:09:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sunday 30 December 2007 14:05:38 Cosimo Streppone wrote: > > > > > I tried to follow chromatic's instructions to obtain a perl6 binary > > > but had some problems [...] > > [...] > > Th

[perl #49316] [PATCH] Fix 45 test failures with a 1-line patch!

2008-01-03 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #49316] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49316 > Although include/parrot/dynext.h says that the third argument of Parrot_init_lib is n

Re: [perl #49274] [CAGE] script to generate ports/debian/parrot-doc.docs

2008-01-03 Thread ajr
> > A quick cage cleaner task. Create a script to generate the file > ports/debian/parrot-doc.docs I've attached a quickie shell script, in case that's what you want. It's a naive little thing, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. A properly formatted and tested Perl script will take

[perl #49314] [PATCH] pbc_to_exe should list libraries last

2008-01-03 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #49314] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49314 > In order to get pbc_to_exe to work with the Solaris linker, I had to move the librari

[perl #49238] [PATCH] pbc_to_exe compile failure on Win32 / MSVC9

2008-01-03 Thread Cosimo Streppone via RT
On Lun. 31 Dic. 2007 01:09:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sunday 30 December 2007 14:05:38 Cosimo Streppone wrote: > > > I tried to follow chromatic's instructions to obtain a perl6 binary > > but had some problems [...] > > > 3) In the final generated "pbc_to_exe.c" and > "languages\perl6\per

Zombie code?

2008-01-03 Thread ajr
While trying to understand Parrot::Vtables.pm, I came across what seems to be some "zombie" code, possibly left after RT 48877. 1. Two references to src/pmc/null.pl, which does not appear to exist. 2. The method "vtbl_embed", which is used only in parrot/tools/build/vtable_extend.pl That writes i

[perl #49308] config/auto/alignptrs.pm fails if required alignment > 1

2008-01-03 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #49308] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49308 > Here's the output of Configure.pl --verbose on a SPARC where the required alignment i