Re: Pre-OSCON hackathon

2007-07-18 Thread Michael G Schwern
Andy Lester wrote: There's a p5 reposithon going on at Schwern's before OSCON. I'd like to hook up with Jonathan and whoever else is around pre-OSCON there, and have our own little Parrot hackathon on the corner. I'm sure Schwern will be fine with that. Sure, the corner... the street corner

Re: [perl #36677] Parrot cannot startup if STDERR or STDOUT is closed

2005-07-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
' Parrot IO: Failed init layer(unix). 66 It appears to be your redirect which is doing it. $ perl -wle 'close STDOUT; system parrot --version /dev/null 21 ; print STDERR $? 8' 0 It must be reopening STDERR and STDOUT. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com

Re: Test::Builder change BAILOUT - BAIL_OUT

2005-05-05 Thread Michael G Schwern
particular reason for the change? Everything else in Test::Builder is this_style not thisstyle. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Phillip K. Dick

Re: Test::Builder change BAILOUT - BAIL_OUT

2005-05-03 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:23:01PM -0700, chromatic wrote: Parrot bundles Test::Builder 0.11 (from Test-Simple 0.41). Is it worth upgrading? Couldn't hurt. A whole mess of is_deeply() bugs have been fixed since 0.41. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com

Re: [perl #34978] lib/Parrot/Test.pm should not use in commands

2005-04-14 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:52:23AM -0700, Jens Rieks wrote: lib/Parrot/Test.pm has several lines like $cmd = qq{(cd $path_to_parrot $parrot $args $code_f)}; As this command is executed with system(), it should not include . All tests on Win98/VC6 are failing with Command not found due to

Re: [perl #34978] lib/Parrot/Test.pm should not use in commands

2005-04-14 Thread Michael G Schwern
And this patch has the added benefit of working. Index: lib/Parrot/Test/m4.pm === --- lib/Parrot/Test/m4.pm (revision 7835) +++ lib/Parrot/Test/m4.pm (working copy) @@ -2,10 +2,11 @@ use strict; -use Data::Dumper;

rsync has .svn directories?

2005-04-14 Thread Michael G Schwern
The rsync off of cvs.perl.org::parrot-HEAD as suggested on parrotcode.org contains .svn directories. This doesn't seem right.

Re: Takers wanted - a perl job

2005-04-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:58:19AM -0700, Robert Spier wrote: Doesn't work when svk is used to check out the copy. But in that case svk list -R does. Hmm. Maybe this should be a commit action and not a test. It was under CVS. I'm pretty sure everyone ignored it there :) They

Re: Parrot and the web (PHP?)

2005-04-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 04:23:01PM -0400, MrJoltCola wrote: Perl was the most famous web development environment some year ago, today PHP is that. I think one of I disagree. How do you support that blanket statement? I politely request that we not have a Perl vs PHP popularity discussion

Re: Takers wanted - a perl job

2005-04-12 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:08:30AM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: t/src/manifest.t tests 3 and 4 used to compare MANIFEST file entries against CVS/Entries. The latter is now .svn/entries with an xmlish syntax. The job is now to replace t/src/manifest.t:scan_cvs so that it extracts Cname items

Re: Takers wanted - a perl job

2005-04-12 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:54:14AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 02:50:57AM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: No need to parse the XML files, svn list -R lists everything in the repo. And I suppose I just volunteered myself for the job. $ svn list -R svn

Re: $(TOUCH) in Perl: any reason not to use utime()?

2005-04-04 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:00:20PM -0400, Chip Salzenberg wrote: Currently, config/gen/makefiles/root.in says: TOUCH = $(PERL) -e ${PQ}open(A,qq{$$_}) or die foreach @ARGV${PQ} However, this fails for my source tree. I habitually leave CVS-controlled files write-only until they are

Re: Passing on the hat

2005-03-21 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:39:57PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: As such, I'd like to say a big thanks to Chip Salzenburg who's agreed to take the hat. The perl folks on the list will recognize Chip as the perl 5.004 pumpking and the guy who took the first shot at Perl: The Next Generation

Re: svn

2004-12-09 Thread Michael G Schwern
? Is there a well-written, comprehensive tutorial? Can I get going in under an hour? -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Home of da bomb

Re: svn

2004-12-09 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:35:26PM -0800, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Are they easily available on all the platforms Parrot is? Various Unixen, OS X, Windows. Is there any hope for a VMS port? Can we add are there GUIs for Windows, OS X

Re: svn

2004-12-08 Thread Michael G Schwern
repositories. Keep in mind that SVN is slower on checkouts than CVS. However diff is a purely local operation. And if you're using something like SVK network traffic isn't much of an issue after all after the initial mirror. -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com

Re: [off topic] an amusing side note

2004-11-24 Thread Michael G Schwern
(such as hyperoperators) and make them easier. -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ The method employed I would gladly explain, While I have it so clear in my head, If I had but the time and you had but the brain-- But much yet remains to be said

Re: Inconsistent opcode names

2004-11-21 Thread Michael G Schwern
. -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ You're more radiant than a memory of breathtaking ecstasy.

Re: [perl #32245] [BUG] Makefile $(TOUCH), doesn't

2004-10-31 Thread Michael G Schwern
to use for other systems. Or we could try this, which might work for all systems: ExtUtils::Command provides tested cross-platform versions of the most common shell functions. These should be used. For example: perl -MExtUtils::Command -e touch -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL

Re: C89

2004-10-21 Thread Michael G Schwern
/ansidocstore/product.asp?sku=INCITS%2FISO%2FIEC+9899%2D1999 (That's the C99 spec but it should be clear from it what was C89 and what's been introduced with C99). -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Beef Coronary

Re: More perl5.005 problems

2004-07-08 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:26:14PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 4:39 PM -0400 6/14/04, Michael G Schwern wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:00:42PM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote: For some reason I haven't been able to figure out, perl5.00503 can't seem to handle the TODO test in t/pmc/object

Re: More perl5.005 problems

2004-07-08 Thread Michael G Schwern
/Builder along with Text::Balanced to avoid users having to resolve module dependencies. Simplest thing to do would be to just throw a recent Test::Harness in there. t/harness has a 'use lib qw(lib)' in it so it should automatically pick it up. Patch attached. -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL

Re: More perl5.005 problems

2004-06-14 Thread Michael G Schwern
to make a dependency on T::H 2.x if you want to use TODO. -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Funny thing about weekends when you're unemployed--they don't mean quite so much. 'Cept you get to hang out with your workin' friends. - Primus Spaghetti

Re: OO inheritance in a hacker style

2004-02-04 Thread Michael G Schwern
Foo; use base qw(This That); sub conflicting_inherited_method { goto {That-can(conflicting_inherited_method)}; } -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Cheating is often more efficient. - Seven of Nine

Re: Testing signal handlers

2004-01-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
-use_numbers(0)). -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ If it's stupid, but it works, it isn't stupid.

Re: [perl #24655] Re:

2003-12-14 Thread Michael G Schwern
. Wounds my heart with a monotonous languor. SCUD missile militia South Africa Marxist Ft. Meade assassination Croatian New World Order BATF ECHELON Kennedy FSF Lon Horiuchi Kenneth Starr security -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ I sit on the floor

Re: [RFT] File Spec

2003-09-14 Thread Michael G Schwern
call would become concat_dirnames(/foo, b). That would be really silly. -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Quit looking, kids! It'll EAT YOUR MIND!! -- http://www.angryflower.com/fuck.gif

Re: [RFT] File Spec

2003-09-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
above since :mydisk:a is ambiguous on MacOS. To be clearer: concat_dirnames(b, /foo) == error. -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Here's hoping you don't harbor a death wish!

Re: [RFT] File Spec

2003-09-11 Thread Michael G Schwern
(:a, ) = append_filename(:a, b) = :a:b -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ I do have a cause though. It is obscenity. I'm for it. -- Tom Lehrer Smut

Re: [RFT] File Spec

2003-09-11 Thread Michael G Schwern
match? What if I'm adding a path with a volume to one without? -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Death? Its like being on holiday with a group of Germans.

Re: [RFT] File Spec

2003-09-11 Thread Michael G Schwern
process more than two in-arguments in PASM, so we would take advantage of prepend_volume and things of such sort. Unless I'm missing something, since the volumes and root dirs are already attached to the filepath string, you don't need more than two arguments. -- Michael G Schwern

Re: [PATCH] File Spec

2003-09-02 Thread Michael G Schwern
concept of a volume Windows: VOLUME:\dir1\dir2\file VMS: VOLUME:[dir1.dir2]file -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Operation Thrusting Peach

Re: mission haiku

2003-08-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
. -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Beef Coronary

Re: What the heck is: timely destruction

2003-08-18 Thread Michael G Schwern
more involved than ref counting to guarantee timely destruction as we desire in Perl. Apparently someone's figured a way to do it and do it efficiently. -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/

Re: What the heck is: timely destruction

2003-08-18 Thread Michael G Schwern
variables work these days. In real life, these objects may live somewhere in memory, waiting for the GC, but in fact are still there, so checking them for being alive will not yield the correct result. I don't understand what you're saying there. -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What the heck is: timely destruction

2003-08-18 Thread Michael G Schwern
not, if I interpret your statement well. I don't think its troublesome, no. From the PoV of the programmer, the object has been destroyed. You can leave the freeing of memory for later, that's an internal issue. -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Beer

Re: XGameStation

2003-08-14 Thread Michael G Schwern
architecture similar to Commodore 64, Atari 800 and Apple II. -- Michael G Schwern[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Cheating is often more efficient. - Seven of Nine

Re: I scare me.

2003-08-02 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 10:35:56AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 01:49:05AM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: I'm sure it needs a few tweaks, but I've managed to write a hq9+ interpreter in pasm. Any thoughts on this? + isn't a portable file name character is it? So

Re: About RT/Perl

2003-03-31 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:54:38PM +0100, Alberto Simões/EPL wrote: Anybody can tell me the address for RT/perl software? Thanks a lot. Go to google.com, type in RT, hit I'm feeling lucky -- It wasn't false, just differently truthful. -- Abhijit Menon-Sen in [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: benchmarking - it's now all(-1,0,1,5,6)% faster

2003-01-12 Thread Michael G Schwern
G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One

Re: DOS filename collisions

2002-12-04 Thread Michael G Schwern
if hardware that old is inside Parrot's scope. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One Only mindless violence can raise my spirits now!

Re: Self documenting comments for parrot

2002-10-02 Thread Michael G Schwern
with the code. I say all of these things as someone who is new to this project and doesn't know POD. If some of my statements here are in ignorant of the way things are, please correct me. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance

Re: [perl #16690] Disable t/src under testj

2002-08-22 Thread Michael G Schwern
... ar -r [-cuTv] archive file ... ar -r [-abciuTv] position archive file ... ar -t [-Tv] archive [file ...] ar -x [-CouTv] archive [file ...] *** Error code 1 -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance

Re: Irrational fear of macros

2002-06-19 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:25:49PM -0400, Melvin Smith wrote: 1) Macros and debuggers don't play as well together. I second that. One of my biggest barriers to useful debugging of perl5 is having, for example, an HV and having to unroll something like the SvRMAGICAL() macro to figure out if

Re: Roadmap for Parrot

2002-04-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
*) Lexicals *) Subroutines *) Attributes *) Per-object specials (variables subs) *) Continuations *) Parser *) Compiler *) Simple optimizer I don't see World Domination or Nervous Breakdown in there anywhere. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com

Re: OpenVMS V7.2-1H1 configure.pl results using the defaults

2002-04-01 Thread Michael G Schwern
=.obj/NoList/NOANSI_ALIAS/include=([.include],/here) testparrotsizes.c' now what's that /here thing doing there? Taking it out doesn't fix things. I'm stumped. I'll go ask on VMSperl. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance [EMAIL

[PATCH hints/vms.pl] VMS Configure fix

2002-04-01 Thread Michael G Schwern
{ -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One If you have to shoot, shoot! Don't talk. -- Tuco, The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

[PATCH Makefile.in] MMS syntax errors

2002-04-01 Thread Michael G Schwern
'` $(LINT) ${cc_inc} $(LINTFLAGS) test_main.c -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One An official I want James Earl Jones' cock up my ass t-shirt. http://www.goats/com

[PATCH Makefile.in] assemble.pl target missing

2002-04-01 Thread Michael G Schwern
to take care of. As for assemble.pl...? --- Makefile.in 29 Mar 2002 07:07:20 - 1.142 +++ Makefile.in 1 Apr 2002 19:11:18 - @@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ C_LIBS = ${libs} CC = ${cc} -LD = ${ld} PERL = ${perl} -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern

[PATCH] VMS fixups. Configure hints Makefile syntax

2002-04-01 Thread Michael G Schwern
=test_siz $name; + system($cmd) and die Link failed! Command was '$cmd'; }; *runtestc=sub { -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One It wasn't false, just

Re: Misc portability cleanups

2002-03-30 Thread Michael G Schwern
is also in ANSI C 89. However, using errno to transmit error messages has bitten us in the ass in Perl5. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One Monkey tennis

Re: 64 bit Debian Linux/PowerPC OK but very noisy

2002-03-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 10:16:13AM -0800, Brent Dax wrote: Michael G Schwern: # On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 02:36:45PM -0800, Hong Zhang wrote: # # Can you check what is the sizeof(INTVAL) and sizeof(void*)? # Some warnings should not have happened. # # (Note: Not a C programmer

Re: 64 bit Debian Linux/PowerPC OK but very noisy

2002-03-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
in 64-bit mode. Huh? Remember, I am not a C programmer. I just took my perl 5.6.1 that's compiled with 64 bit ints and ran Configure.pl with it. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job

Re: [PATCH Configure.pl] (still broken) Re: OpenVMS can't get past configure

2002-03-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
pathname translation function. The result of the decc$to_vms translation is then used as the filespec to try to open. so this works: CC/DECC /INCLUDE=(./include) testparrotsizes.c but you might want to get independent confirmation from the vmsperl folks about that. -- Michael G. Schwern

Re: 64 bit Debian Linux/PowerPC OK but very noisy

2002-03-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
. Currently it doesn't. If Parrot is busted wrt 64 bit ints on 32 bit platforms, could Configure just throw a warning? -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One rocking chairIn the old days

Stock Debian Linux/PowerPC OK

2002-03-16 Thread Michael G Schwern
encodings/utf32.c: In function `utf32_skip_forward': encodings/utf32.c:54: warning: cast discards qualifiers from pointer target type encodings/utf32.c: In function `utf32_skip_backward': encodings/utf32.c:62: warning: cast discards qualifiers from pointer target type -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL

Re: 64 bit Debian Linux/PowerPC OK but very noisy

2002-03-16 Thread Michael G Schwern
, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One The key, my friend, is hash browns

Re: Perl6/Parrot status

2002-02-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 07:12:18PM +0100, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: Is this for real? I can't really believe this... Yes, I have it on good authority from the Easter Bunny. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance [EMAIL

Re: Perl6/Parrot status

2002-02-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
don't get it. Can someone have Santa Claus explain it to me? This, too, is a joke. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One Fuck with me and I will saw off your legs. http

[PATCH lib/Parrot/Test.pm] More info about failed compiles

2002-01-30 Thread Michael G Schwern
; -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One sort God kill 9, @ARGV;

Re: *poke* *poke* Parrot::Test - Test::Builder patch

2002-01-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 04:07:06PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 1:55 AM -0500 1/28/02, Michael G Schwern wrote: This patch seems to have slipped by in the post New Year's haze. It updates Parrot's version of Test::More to 0.41 and makes Parrot::Test use Test::Builder instead of doing Evil

Re: *poke* *poke* Parrot::Test - Test::Builder patch

2002-01-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 09:36:19PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 7:47 PM -0500 1/28/02, Michael G Schwern wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 04:07:06PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 1:55 AM -0500 1/28/02, Michael G Schwern wrote: This patch seems to have slipped by in the post New Year's haze

Re: *poke* *poke* Parrot::Test - Test::Builder patch

2002-01-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 09:33:06PM -0800, Steve Fink wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 09:36:19PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 7:47 PM -0500 1/28/02, Michael G Schwern wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 04:07:06PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 1:55 AM -0500 1/28/02, Michael G Schwern wrote

Re: *poke* *poke* Parrot::Test - Test::Builder patch

2002-01-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 12:39:36AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: Dammit, I had that working before I committed things. I'll fix. Looks like things drifted a bit since I wrote the patch. Want me to do it over? -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl

*poke* *poke* Parrot::Test - Test::Builder patch

2002-01-27 Thread Michael G Schwern
This patch seems to have slipped by in the post New Year's haze. It updates Parrot's version of Test::More to 0.41 and makes Parrot::Test use Test::Builder instead of doing Evil things to Test::More. Less Evil is Good. http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg07760.html -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL

When Licenses Attack

2002-01-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
Enterprises new-style BSD beer-ware semi-public-domain Beware any software license that comes compressed. I just post this as a cautionary tale. The next time you think Parrot's licensing policy is getting in your way, it could be worse. It could be beer-ware. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL

Big Bucket o' Warnings

2002-01-12 Thread Michael G Schwern
Attached is a build of a just rsync'd parrot on Linux/PowerPC machine. Stock configure using Debian's perl (so nothing fancy like 64bit integers). There's a lot of warnings. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance [EMAIL

[PATCH] Parrot::Test meets Test::Builder

2002-01-12 Thread Michael G Schwern
. If you avoid no_plan and TODO tests, the stock Test::Harness +will work fine. If you simply depend on Test::More, it's own dependencies will cause a Test::Harness upgrade. =back -=head1 AUTHOR - -Michael G Schwern Elt[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt with much inspiration from -Joshua Pritikin's Test

Re: [PATCH] Skip tests, don't comment them out

2002-01-10 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:56:57PM +, Simon Glover wrote: As the subject line says. Technically that should be a TODO. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One come sing my

Re: [PATCH] It's a trick, sir...

2002-01-04 Thread Michael G Schwern
$* ` JOKE -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One and I pull out the Magnum from under the desk where I keep it in case someone laughs at a joke that's so dry it's got a built in water

Re: JIT me some speed!

2001-12-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
instruction That's not supposed to happen is it? Its Linux/PowerPC, so maybe it is supposed to happen. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One mendel ScHWeRnsChweRNsChWErN

Re: Nmake is stupid.

2001-12-12 Thread Michael G Schwern
without GNU make. We'll get your patches integrated in soon, and a longer-term solution (i.e. a perl make) should be ready not too long after that. Anyone insane enough to try this? http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Make/Make-1.00.tar.gz -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http

Re: Parrot FAQ

2001-12-06 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:54:54PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: Not that I'm contemplating actually having parrot run z-code natively, but... is there anything in the Z machine that we might want to steal^Wreproduce? I for one would like a PCKUP_FONEBOOTH_N_DIE op. -- Michael G. Schwern

Re: Parrot FAQ

2001-12-04 Thread Michael G Schwern
http://www.swiki.net. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One If you got the wax out of your ears you could hear the twister picking up the trailer park of your future!

Re: Request for new feature: attach a perl debugger to a running process

2001-10-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
values of some. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One There is a disurbing lack of PASTE ENEMA on the internet.

Re: Languages in the core source tree?

2001-10-22 Thread Michael G Schwern
language is broken is up to Simon. So yes, put them in the default Parrot tree. Later on when they've matured they can branch off into seperate projects and go their own way. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL

Re: use parrot;

2001-10-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 08:11:27PM +0200, raptor wrote: will it be possible to do this inside Perl program : use parrot; ...parrot code... no parrot; Bad idea of the day -- Inline::Parrot! -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality

Re: PMCs and how the opcode functions will work

2001-10-09 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 06:36:32PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: Questions, anyone? ;-) Will there be a test on this? -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One It sure is fun masturbating

Re: Perl6 Tinderbox

2001-10-05 Thread Michael G Schwern
on to use Devel::Tinderbox::Reporter (which was just written) and Test::Smoke (which wouldn't help perl6 all that much anyway. There's an existing Parrot::Smoke module, I forget where it is off hand. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance

Re: SV: OpenVMS

2001-10-03 Thread Michael G Schwern
qualifier or keyword value - supply all required values \INCLUDE\ C compiler died! at configure.pl line 137. %RMS-E-FNF, file not found -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One 36 haikus

Report on Linux/PowerPC w/64 bits

2001-10-01 Thread Michael G Schwern
-- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One

Linux/PowerPC w/o 64bits a-ok

2001-10-01 Thread Michael G Schwern
Debian Linux/PowerPC without 64 bit integers tests out 100% ok. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One Let's face it, said bearded Rusty Simmons, opening a can after the race

Re: Solaris problems with trans.t

2001-09-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 05:22:41AM +0200, Buggs wrote: if(sin(1) == sin(1.0)) The ubc cc has sin(1) as being 0.000. You have to cast it to a double. SunPRO handles it fine. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance

Re: t/op/number.t output confuses Test::Harnss

2001-09-21 Thread Michael G Schwern
) after test 9, and such. Yes, that problem was exposed by Test::More 0.19 when it started sending diagnostics to STDOUT instead of STDERR. 0.20 will fix. I sent in a patch for this (the one that added Test::More into the distribution) but it seems to have not been applied. -- Michael G. Schwern

Re: Example assembler code (primes.pasm)

2001-09-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
complicated test case we've got at the moment. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One If you see an animal with (-) 100 points and (+) 70 points, would you eat it? Hell no, and you should

Re: Darwin - looking good

2001-09-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
and the other targets that use $(PERL) change to $(PERLRUN). I could do this myself. What's the best way to submit a bunch of file/directory moves? -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job

Re: Complete failure on Linux/PowerPC with 64bit ints.

2001-09-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:03:45AM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Michael G Schwern wrote: But if we run Configure.pl with bleadperl that *does* use 64bit ints and has debugging flags on, there's trouble. And all of the tests fail with This isn't Parrot bytecode

Re: instructions per second benchmark (in parrot ;)

2001-09-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
. Do those sound like reasonable numbers? Of course, since time_i is one of the opcodes looped, it probably brings the numbers down. 1.59 MIPS here. 1.77 if I shut off the mp3 player. :) G3/266. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality

Re: instructions per second benchmark (in parrot ;)

2001-09-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
. Hmmm, why would a K6/200 come out so much faster than a G3/266? If anything it should be the other way around. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One Jesus hates me. http

Re: The core platforms list

2001-09-18 Thread Michael G Schwern
). There shouldn't be much difference from x86 except the byte ordering, I hope. -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One Maybe they hooked you up with one of those ass-making magazines

Re: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

2001-09-09 Thread Michael G Schwern
compatibility--and I don't think because it's mathematically redundant is a valid reason to bust compatibility for a tiny little function like log(). -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One

Re: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

2001-09-08 Thread Michael G Schwern
it was decimal math (packed decimal). From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (06 Jun 01) [foldoc]: Zero and Add Packed language (ZAP) An {IBM 360}/370 {assembly language} instruction used when performing {packed arithmatic} to initialise an {accumulator}. -- Michael G. Schwern

Re: Accessing a variable's attributes (was Re: RFC 241 (v1) ...)

2000-09-18 Thread Michael G Schwern
uot; realm of things. It should be done in XS code. Also, just being able to tack flags onto a variable means each variable (that has a flag) would have to carry around a hash! Anyhow, this doesn't mean someone couldn't write a module to do it and then you use that. -- Michael G Schwern

Re: RFC 227 (v1) Extend the window to turn on taint mode

2000-09-15 Thread Michael G Schwern
needed? I think pretty much anything else can be built from these. -- Michael G Schwern http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just Another Stupid Consultant Perl6 Kwalitee Ashuranse An 87 year old man had no sex at all before wearing my device

Re: RFC 227 (v1) Extend the window to turn on taint mode

2000-09-15 Thread Michael G Schwern
they work). The simplest thing would be to just merge and patch up Taint.pm and distribute it with perl6. PS Your Taint.zip archive... something is very odd. All the filenames came out lowercase. -- Michael G Schwern http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just Anot

Re: RFC 155 - Remove geometric functions from core

2000-08-25 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 09:12:32AM -0400, Stephen P. Potter wrote: Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wh ispered: | PS The idea of adding acos, asin and tan is good. You just answered your own question. It is very difficult to add new functions

Re: Design by Contract for perl internals

2000-08-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
together a DBC system for... what language are we writing this in again? -- Michael G Schwern http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just Another Stupid Consultant Perl6 Kwalitee Ashuranse Plus I remember being impressed with Ada because you could write