I'm getting married Saturday and going on honeymoon for 10 days.
So I'll just update you guys on what I'm working on just in case I
fall of the face of the earth for the next 2 weeks, I have a lot of
unflushed stuff.
Parrot:
1) Porting to WinCE for PocketPC
The first cut will be posted as a link where we can see what
was required to get it to work, then we can systematically apply it
to the up to date snapshot in an orderly approach.
2) A networking layer for the IO system. (compiles on Linux/Solaris and
Win32 for now, should be done on CE soon.)
3) Going to fixup the IO system to be more Parrot like, including stringifying
and making a real PMC out the PIO object.
Dan I did send you an initial PDD for IO which you acknowledged but
then
I think you ate it. Still need lots of discussion on the async
stuff but I think
everyone is busy enough to put async off for a while more.
Cola:
1) A redesign of the intermediate code generator and support for real
classes, namespaces and arrays on any supported Parrot type.
2) Working on an accurate C# grammar to replace the toy one I have now.
I think the feedback from the compiler will be invaluable as we develop
the assembler and bytecode format to support non-Perl type of languages.
These are all at various stages, I've been overwhelmed by the wedding
planning + job and have been lucky just to get in an hour a day. When I get
back I'll hit the ground running.
I'm also chipping away at a certain unnamed company to donate an AIX box
for official testbed, and possibly contribute otherwise to the project, this
will likely take a while though.
Lastly, as I promised Brent, I have a Sun Sparc Ultra10 that I'm going to
open up to any developer that is trusted with CVS access, for those less
fortunate who do not have access to anything besides Windows and/or Linux.
Thanks guys, you are all a great team to work with and I am proud to
learn from people more intelligent than I; and I think Parrot is coming
right along. :)
-Melvin
