Re: Standards bearers (was Re: xml and perl 6)

2007-12-11 Thread Paul Hodges
duh. I'll learn to finish reading all the posts before adding my own *someday*. --- Darren Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:23 AM +0300 12/11/07, Richard Hainsworth wrote: Darren Duncan wrote: At 9:04 AM +0300 12/10/07, Richard Hainsworth wrote: Equally, Something to replace CGI or DBI

Re: Standards bearers (was Re: xml and perl 6)

2007-12-11 Thread Paul Hodges
It also helps that you consistently make incisive observations and contributions to conversations, even if they are a little tart sometimes. :) But on this general note, is there any current organization or location where small problems are being parcelled out? I'd love to help, but my time is

Re: Standards bearers (was Re: xml and perl 6)

2007-12-11 Thread ispyhumanfly
Paul Hodges wrote: But on this general note, is there any current organization or location where small problems are being parcelled out? I'd love to help, but my time is as limited as everyone's If I could get small bites of work to do, maybe I could contribute something useful. Anyone

Re: Standards bearers (was Re: xml and perl 6)

2007-12-10 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Why thank you Mr. Chromatic! In between all my other activities, I have been trolling along this list from its inception, and followed eagerly every Appocalpse, Exegisis and Synopsis as soon as they came on line. I download pugs and parrot from SVN repositories, written tests - one of which

Re: Standards bearers (was Re: xml and perl 6)

2007-12-10 Thread Darren Duncan
At 9:04 AM +0300 12/10/07, Richard Hainsworth wrote: Equally, Something to replace CGI or DBI will be essential to the uptake of P6. I would far prefer to have a skilled and resourceful professional, such as yourself or Damian Conway write these modules than leave it to enthusiastic amateurs

Re: Standards bearers (was Re: xml and perl 6)

2007-12-10 Thread chromatic
On Sunday 09 December 2007 22:04:30 Richard Hainsworth wrote: I download pugs and parrot from SVN repositories, written tests - one of which still hangs the compilation of pugs. Indeed the test I wrote for pugs concerned the ability of pugs to use existing CPAN modules. I have tried parrot

Re: Standards bearers (was Re: xml and perl 6)

2007-12-09 Thread chromatic
On Saturday 08 December 2007 06:50:48 Richard Hainsworth wrote: Surely, some concentrated thought by the inventive and resouceful minds of who lead this project should go into language utilisation and popularisation. My goodness, @Larry's pretty darn busy trying to build the core kernel of

Re: Standards bearers (was Re: xml and perl 6)

2007-12-06 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 07:43:25PM -0800, Peter Scott wrote: : I do feel strongly that we need some sort of solution to this so that Perl : 6 is not merely an outstanding framework that leaves all domain-specific : extensions to the end user. Perl 6 as a language doesn't address this (except to

Re: Standards bearers (was Re: xml and perl 6)

2007-12-06 Thread cdumont
Larry Wall wrote: Now, it might well be that a Perl standards body could specify a mininum suggested set of modules for any distribution to enhance interoperability, but we haven't got to that point yet, I don't think. This would be great though!! Even if it is afterward, it is still a lot

Re: Standards bearers (was Re: xml and perl 6)

2007-12-03 Thread Peter Scott
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:57:58 -0700, David Green wrote: Part of a solution is search.cpan.org -- if you can figure out which of the 870 XML modules will be useful to you. Another part is asking on newsgroups or lists -- if you can figure out which of the 870 opinions offered is

Re: Standards bearers (was Re: xml and perl 6)

2007-12-03 Thread Smylers
Peter Scott writes: I do feel strongly that we need some sort of solution to this so that Perl 6 is not merely an outstanding framework that leaves all domain-specific extensions to the end user. OK. Can we find a way to make and maintain some recommendations in a way that people can find

Re: Standards bearers (was Re: xml and perl 6)

2007-11-30 Thread Luke Palmer
On Nov 30, 2007 10:57 AM, David Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe some kind of Advisory Board would help, where people (who might be experts in various ways) can offer informed recommendations on what modules make a good fit for what circumstances. Ultimately, if this is something we want,