From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > At 11:33 PM 10/23/2001 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >Configure doesn't really deal with portability to non-Unix > >systems either, being a shell script itself. Perl seemed > >to just bypass it in favor of pre-generated results. > > Configure still doesn't, which is part of the problem. Some > systems (notably VMS) have a home-grown configure checker > which works out fine, but others, like Windows, don't and > have to count on static configs. (Last time I looked there > were several depending on your compiler, but that might've > changed) > > I'd really like to reduce the amount of platform-specific > stuff in the base build/configure of perl 6. Having already > done a configure-ish thing for VMS, I think it won't be a > huge problem, though rather tedious in spots.
Would CML2 contribute to or detract from the tedium? http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ Anybody know where to get ahold of this ESR guy? He might have some useful ideas. Probably dancing around some techno-pagan fire playing his pan pipes... CML2 is currently implemented in Python, but that doesn't prevent a micro(Parrot|Perl|Python) implementation...
