On Oct 23, 2012, at 5:09 AM, Vorländer, Martin wrote: > Hi all! > > Just a little (pre-)announcement... > > At this year's YAPC::EU the german VAXman persuaded me into attempting a port > of Parrot to VMS. > While I'm still fighting my way through the build process, I already do have > a working parrot.exe: > > $ mcr []parrot -"V" > This is Parrot version 4.9.0-devel built for IA64-vms > Copyright (C) 2001-2012, Parrot Foundation. > > This code is distributed under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0. > For more details, see the full text of the license in the LICENSE file > included in the Parrot source tree > $
Congratulations, Martin. That is really an achievement. > All changes needed to get the build going on VMS will eventually appear on > https://github.com/parrot/parrot > And as VAXman is a big fan of VAXen, I will keep compatability towards > OpenVMS VAX 7.2 in mind > (as that's what his main machine FAFNER.dyndns.org is running under). Can Parrot really function without IEEE floating point and 64-bit integers? ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:craigbe...@mac.com "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
