On Sat Apr 05 17:14:38 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Perl Seminar NY will conduct such a Parrot/Rakudo buildfest on Tuesday > April 15.
We did indeed have this buildfest last Tuesday with 7 participants. Here's what one participant -- an experienced Unix guy but not a frequent perlsemny attendee -- wrote: " Thanks for the great Parrot VM workshop at NYPC tonight. I grabbed the tarball since I only had CVS on my machine not SVN. "The Mar 18 release I tried first had 2 errors on my Intel MacBookPro15. The first was a trailing whitespace in languages/tcl/src/pmc/tclarray.pmc which prove -v told me was on line 1. I fixed it, but didn't have to submit a patch because someone had already patched it in this morning's snapshot. "This morning's snapshot didn't catch the other fail which was in t/examples/library.t and for which I just sent you the full output of prove -v. "So I was able to configure and make, with make test giving just that one error. Luckily, this one error was not critical, and I was able to get to "Hello World" by the end of the alloted time. "Again, thanks for the informative workshop. I had originally started with parrot years ago and haven't revisited it in a while." This participant added that the original reason he was attracted to Parrot was the possibility of interoperability between Perl and Python code. In much the same way, that developments in late December perked people's interest with Perl 6 on Parrot, I suspect that there are quite a few people whose interest will perk up once we can demonstrate that interoperability. kid51
