Re: Porting considerations

2016-01-20 Thread Timo Paulssen
On 20/01/16 15:55, Parrot Raiser wrote: How difficult is it to port moar-VM to different versions of Linux, and different processor architectures? I'm thinking particularly of this machine: http://www.parallella.org/ which has multiple processors, designed, as the name suggests, for parallel pro

Porting considerations

2016-01-20 Thread Parrot Raiser
How difficult is it to port moar-VM to different versions of Linux, and different processor architectures? I'm thinking particularly of this machine: http://www.parallella.org/ which has multiple processors, designed, as the name suggests, for parallel processing. Given Perl 6's native parallel co

Re: Guido’s library porting considerations

2008-03-18 Thread David Green
On 2008-Mar-18, at 1:42 am, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: [...] how is he going to tell whether the breakage is due to your API changes or due to his own code not being Py3k-ready? Sounds quite well reasoned to me. Is this something that makes sense to encourage for 5-to-6 migrations of Perl cod

Guido’ s library porting considerations

2008-03-18 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
Hi all, this sounds sensible: * : > I implore you (especially if you’re maintaining a library > that’s used by others) not to make incompatible changes to your > API. If you *have* to make API changes, do them *before* you > port to 3.0 –