i'm neck deep in writing the IMC eval code for pugs. if i've already loaded bytecode using Parrot_readbc/loadbc, i can then successfully call the PIR compiler and eval code at will from C/Haskell. great!
however, without the Parrot_readbc step, everything bombs out because the packfile isn't set up correctly. and after looking at packfile.c and embed.c, it's obvious there's a lot more i need to do than just creating a new packfile. do we have the ability to do this right now or should there be another function that performs this initialization for us? we'll most certainly need this for things like "perl -e" one-liners. in the short term, i can use a no-op .pbc file to bootstrap with, but i imagine there's a more elegant solution out there. -jeff
