I'm trying to see if we can move this ticket toward resolution. I think that it has remained unresolved for so long because the original post originally called for two steps: (a) removal from Configure.pl of configuration steps which probed for features only used in specific language implementations; (b) development of a way to conduct such language-specific probes in the language directory trees after 'perl Configure.pl' and 'make' have been run.
There were two specific steps cited for removal per (a): auto::python and auto::m4. By June of this year I had removed both of those from Parrot configuration. So that leaves us with (b). particle wrote: "languages/dotnet/ has its own configure.pl, and m4, plumhead, etc. should follow that model." Barney responded: "One thing that held me back from using something like 'dotnet/Configure.pl' was that 'dotnet/Configure.pl' currently needs to be explicitly called after the main 'Configure.pl' has run. This is bad for universal languages testing." And that's where discussion left off three months ago. I am recommending the following: (1) Mark this ticket resolved. (2) Conduct discussion on list or IRC as to the best architecture/model for language-specific probes. (3) Once we've come to such resolution on (2), open a new RT to implement what we've decided. particle, Barney: Any objections? Thank you very much. kid51
