Re: Playing with substr()

2008-01-09 Thread Cosimo Streppone
jerry gay wrote: On Jan 9, 2008 12:08 AM, Cosimo wrote: So question is: would be useful to "port" the substr() test script from Perl5's `t/op/substr.t' also to Perl6? what we ultimately want is tests that cover the spec, which for 'substr' is probably very close to the perl 5 spec. however, m

[perl #36411] New form of 'setattribute' fails when there are multiple inheritance levels

2008-01-09 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Tue Jun 28 07:32:02 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The following PIR (attached as "script.pir", and also included here) > fails under Parrot 0.2.1 (Fedora Core 3, Intel x86): > > .sub main @MAIN >$P1 = newclass "PARENT_1" >addattribute $P1, "foo"#1 >$P2 = subclass

Re: [perl #48497] [BUILD] Missing opcodes should be an error

2008-01-09 Thread Simon Cozens
James Keenan via RT wrote: > The build tools tests are intended to be run after someone has made > changes in modules such as lib/Parrot/Pmc2cUtils/, Ops2cUtils and > Ops2pmutils/. They're set up to be run after Configure.pl has completed > but before make has been invoked. (In fact, they will ge

[perl #48497] [BUILD] Missing opcodes should be an error

2008-01-09 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Wed Jan 09 06:59:41 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fixed in r24703 Unfortunately, it breaks one of the tests we've put in place for testing the build tools (the various .pl files invoked by 'make'). See attached. The build tools tests are intended to be run after someone has made changes in

Re: the future of testing

2008-01-09 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Rafael Garcia-Suarez # on Wednesday 09 January 2008 05:36: >Allison Randal wrote in perl.perl6.internals : >> In the Python test suite, there's a single global location to >> declare a list of test files that are expected to be skipped on a >> particular platform. This has a much cleaner fe

Re: Perl 6 new contributor day

2008-01-09 Thread chromatic
On Sunday 06 January 2008 11:15:25 Andy Lester wrote: > With the new contributor day coming up, I'd like to run an article on > Perlbuzz about it. Can anyone supply me some text? Or point me to a > preferred old text that I can adapt? I'm looking at > http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/

[perl #49566] [PATCH] PLATFORMS update, solaris 8, gcc, January 2008

2008-01-09 Thread via RT
218 -sol8-sparc-gcc_4.1.0 B--- - - -Y/36*4 ? 20071218 +sol8-sparc-gcc_4.1.0 B--- - - -Y/171 ? 20080109 sol10-sparc-cc_5.8 BY-- Y Y YY/9 ? 20060807 sol10-sparc-gcc_4.0.2BY--

Re: Playing with substr()

2008-01-09 Thread jerry gay
On Jan 9, 2008 12:08 AM, Cosimo Streppone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to play with perl6.exe. > I've wandered in the opened tickets for perl6 and > saw this one about `substr()': > > http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=44321 > > It ends with a patch that enables the 3rd op

Re: [PATCH] probe for gcc -Wxxx only when gcc (well, g++)

2008-01-09 Thread Andy Lester
Unfortunately I haven't been able to test the patch, however, icc *should* handle -W flags exactly the same as gcc. And if it doesn't, then there is an issue there we (or Intel) should deal with. So, I would update the patch to ask if we have gcc or icc. I agree that -W doesn't apply to some ot

Re: the future of testing

2008-01-09 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Allison Randal wrote in perl.perl6.internals : > In the Python test suite, there's a single global location to declare a > list of test files that are expected to be skipped on a particular > platform. This has a much cleaner feel than our own motley collection of > skip and todo markers in vari

[perl #49558] [PATCH] Note inter::progs ought to be smarter about finding linker

2008-01-09 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #49558] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49558 > This patch just notes a problem area. In order to pick the correct linker on platform

Re: [PATCH] probe for gcc -Wxxx only when gcc (well, g++)

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Cochrane
On 09/01/2008, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 07 January 2008 20:09:26 Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > > --- config/auto/warnings.pm.dist 2008-01-08 05:51:42.0 +0200 > > +++ config/auto/warnings.pm 2008-01-08 06:01:23.0 +0200 > > @@ -132,17 +132,22 @@ > >

Re: [PATCH] tru64: hints tweaks

2008-01-09 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > --- config/init/hints/dec_osf.pm.dist 2008-01-09 04:57:50.0 +0200 > +++ config/init/hints/dec_osf.pm 2008-01-09 05:23:23.0 +0200 > @@ -43,8 +45,9 @@ > $conf->data->set( linkflags => $linkflags ); > } > > -# Re

Re: [PATCH] tru64: hints tweaks

2008-01-09 Thread James E Keenan
Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: --- config/init/hints/dec_osf.pm.dist 2008-01-09 04:57:50.0 +0200 +++ config/init/hints/dec_osf.pm2008-01-09 05:23:23.0 +0200 @@ -14,8 +14,10 @@ Jarkko: Our RT system doesn't pick up new submissions that go (only) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coul

the future of testing

2008-01-09 Thread Allison Randal
In the Python test suite, there's a single global location to declare a list of test files that are expected to be skipped on a particular platform. This has a much cleaner feel than our own motley collection of skip and todo markers in various test files. Something to consider after the 1.0 r

Re: A quick NCI question

2008-01-09 Thread robby
Sorry, essentially what I'm asking is if i can pass a pir method as a function pointer on a c call. essentially what I'm looking to do is get into the message pump on windows, and I'm trying to keep all of the code within pir. I'm trying to see how many hoops I need to do in order to write a

[PATCH] tru64: hints tweaks

2008-01-09 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
--- config/init/hints/dec_osf.pm.dist 2008-01-09 04:57:50.0 +0200 +++ config/init/hints/dec_osf.pm2008-01-09 05:23:23.0 +0200 @@ -14,8 +14,10 @@ if ( $ccflags !~ /-pthread/ ) { $ccflags .= ' -pthread'; } +if ( $ccflags !~ /-D_REENTRANT/ ) { +

Playing with substr()

2008-01-09 Thread Cosimo Streppone
I'm trying to play with perl6.exe. I've wandered in the opened tickets for perl6 and saw this one about `substr()': http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=44321 It ends with a patch that enables the 3rd optional argument for substr(). I gave it a shot, and it seems to work. So questi