I began a little piece of this ages ago- attempting to translate the parts
that identify the platform ($^O, essentially) from metaconfig to something
we could put into Configure.pl.
Even that relatively simple chore wasn't too easy. I should still have
the work-in-progress code for that
At 10:22 on 03/18/2004 EST, Andrew Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
5. You probably don't need to support Eunice anymore.
I think i'm not the only one who would be deeply upset if I ceased to be
congratulated for not running Eunice though.
--Josh
Josh Wilmes wrote:
At 10:22 on 03/18/2004 EST, Andrew Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
5. You probably don't need to support Eunice anymore.
I think i'm not the only one who would be deeply upset if I ceased to be
congratulated for not running Eunice though.
Ah, but since we'll have One
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Larry Wall wrote:
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 06:00:51PM -0800, Brent Dax Royal-Gordon wrote:
: Dan Sugalski wrote:
: Instead,
: what I'd like is for someone (Oh, Brent... :) to go through perl's
: configure
:
: Gulp.
I'm sure Andy can give you *reams* of advice on Perl
On Wed 17 Mar 2004 02:31, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 07:47:25PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
: Second, we're running over the same problems in system configuration
: that perl (and python, and ruby, for that matter) have already run
: across. Moreover, we're
Hey folks.
Now that we're integrating in with perl 5, a few things are becoming
really obvious.
First, we really need to work on the embedding interface. Memory
handling, signals, and I/O are the biggies there. Working on that,
though not fast enough for Arthur.
Second, we're running over
Dan Sugalski wrote:
Instead,
what I'd like is for someone (Oh, Brent... :) to go through perl's
configure
Gulp.
--
Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perl and Parrot hacker
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 06:00:51PM -0800, Brent Dax Royal-Gordon wrote:
: Dan Sugalski wrote:
: Instead,
: what I'd like is for someone (Oh, Brent... :) to go through perl's
: configure
:
: Gulp.
I'm sure Andy can give you *reams* of advice on Perl 5's configurator,
especially on how it all
Larry Wall wrote in perl.perl6.internals :
Not using metaconfig (or something like it) would be the biggest
mistake. It's actually next to impossible to maintain something like
a Configure script directly.
Actually as parrot already uses IIUC variables set up by Configure,
I think one could
