On Sep 18, 2004, at 2:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-09-08 17:37:52 +0100]:The probing is going to *have* to get written in something that compiles
down to parrot bytecode to work on the autoconf-deprived systems, so with
that as a given there's no need for autoconf ahead of that.
How feasable would it be to write a sh -> parrot bytecode compiler?
:)
Ha, I'm sure it could probably be done, but of course "most" of what the shell does it invoke other programs, so in the common case it still wouldn't give you portability to non-Unix-like platforms.
JEff
