perlbug (and parrotbug) upgrade

2006-07-03 Thread Robert Spier
Finally, the moment you've all been waiting for is here! perlbug (http://rt.perl.org/rt3/) has been upgraded to the latest and greatest version (RT 3.6). Here are some changes you might notice: - a new shiny look - no more auth.perl.org, we now authenticate directly from bitcard.org - a p

Re: languages/ Cleanup

2006-05-27 Thread Robert Spier
> I was going to suggest keeping an archive of this one outside the > repository, but it's only 2 files, so I'll just keep a copy for > myself. (I'd like to revive it at some point in PGE/TGE and the old > implementation could be useful.) Nothing is actually _deleted_ from SVN... it just gets har

Re: svn links for the Architecture section on the website?

2006-04-23 Thread Robert Spier
> Given the recent explosion of svn commits in the synopses, and the fact that > the versions of the synopses on the dev.perl.org/perl6 site are lagging a > bit, would it make sense to add a link to the svn site to the > Synopses page? I'd rather not. The ones on the dev site shouldn't have be

Re: libparrot.so.0.4.2

2006-03-25 Thread Robert Spier
> > (If so, as a bit of background it's discussed at the bottom of #38217 > > on RT, and I tried to put together a patch in r11320 but I caused some > > breakage so it's been backed out. I need to revive it) > > Thank you, Nick. How do I get a username and password for RT? http://auth.perl.org/

Re: [perl x38598] [TODO] PIR Examples, Libraries, and Tests - Migrate to New Subroutine Attributes

2006-02-26 Thread Robert Spier
> Applied in 11755, 11756, and 11758. (Ticket not closed; I don't have > permission.) You shouldn't say things like that. You have permission now. -R (pulling an Audrey.)

Re: Subversion Server Downtime

2006-02-24 Thread Robert Spier
Upgrade complete. You shouldn't notice anything different, except some operations might be faster. -R At Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:25:22 -0800, Robert Spier wrote: > > > FYI - > > At some point later this week, or maybe this weekend, I will be taking > the perl.org Su

Subversion Server Downtime

2006-02-21 Thread Robert Spier
FYI - At some point later this week, or maybe this weekend, I will be taking the perl.org Subversion server down to move it to different hardware. This most likely won't happen until after the imminent Parrot release. >From an end user perspective, nothing should change. (Although we are upgra

Re: svn performance

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Spier
> Sigh. I wish it were that simple, or that funny. > > $ time wget http://cvs.perl.org/snapshots/parrot/parrot-latest.tar.gz > > real0m16.84s > user0m0.09s > sys 0m0.20s > > $ time svn co http://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk parrot-trunk > > real 2:01:50.3 > user 1:02.0 > sys

svn performance

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Spier
> snapshots or releases. And, since a checkout takes about an hour (last > time I checked) I tend to be too lazy to fetch one just to make a patch. Only if you're checking out to a Commodore 64. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp$ time svn co http://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk parrot-trunk > /dev/null re

Re: Svn Commit list...

2005-12-31 Thread Robert Spier
> ... seems to be dead for about a day now, though I know commits are > going through. Fixed. > BCCing webmaster at perl dot org, where this will hopefully open a > ticket. THANK YOU. This meant the message got seen much earlier than it otherwise would, and because of the BCC, no collateral dam

blocked mime types

2005-11-05 Thread Robert Spier
> No, it isn't. =) > > The mail list strips out .t attachments (Robert? is this necessary?) We don't strip .t We strip troff attachments. Really, it's a bad mailer that is labeling the .t file a troff mime-type. I've removed the troff types from the bad mime list. -R

Re: merge & release

2005-09-28 Thread Robert Spier
We've actually done a merge. It is complete. All committed changes on the leo-ctx5 branch are now on trunk as of rev 9260. The leo-ctx5 branch was deleted as rev 9261. If you have any checkouts of the leo-ctx5 branch, you will need to switch them to trunk cd parrot-checkout-of-leo-ctx5-br

Re: [PATCH] Perl 6 FAQ

2005-07-26 Thread Robert Spier
> [1 ] > On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 11:53:01AM -0700, Robert Spier wrote: > > Thanks, applied. > Thanks! However, the rendered form is still of an old revision: > http://dev.perl.org/perl6/faq.html It was still in my staging copy. It should be up now. -R

Re: [PATCH] Perl 6 FAQ

2005-07-24 Thread Robert Spier
Thanks, applied. At Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:39:42 +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote: > > [1 ] > Below is a patch to remove the first Q&A from: > http://dev.perl.org/perl6/faq.html

Re: Website still refers to 0.2.0 as latest version

2005-06-17 Thread Robert Spier
Updated. (Sorry for the delay.) -R At Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:18:38 +0100, Roger Browne wrote: > > By the way, the website > http://www.parrotcode.org/ > still refers to 0.2.0 as the latest version. > > Regards, > Roger Browne

Re: [PATCH] More t/p6rules tests

2005-05-18 Thread Robert Spier
> The list server keeps eating my attached homework. Won't let me attach a > .t file. This is because your mailer is declaring it to be an application/x-troff file.

Re: parrotcode.org needs some updating

2005-05-08 Thread Robert Spier
> Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > http://www.parrotcode.org/resources.html still has CVS and CVS > > instructions mentioned. Please replace it with equivalent SVN hints. > > ... which are at http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html Updated. As always, patches for this kind of thing are welcome. (You

Re: Favicon.ico for http://www.parrotcode.org

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Spier
> I noticed that the favicon.ico for http://www.parrotcode.org is a Camel. > Can we have a Parrot for that, in order to do the many non-Perl Parrot > based languages justice? Good idea. I've put one in place. If someone wants to make a nicer one, I won't kick and scream too much. -R

Re: Takers wanted - a perl job

2005-05-01 Thread Robert Spier
> Robert Spier wrote: > >>>Doesn't work when svk is used to check out the copy. But in that case > >>>svk list -R does. > >> > >>Hmm. Maybe this should be a commit action and not a test. > > It was under CVS. I'm pretty sure everyone i

Re: rsync has .svn directories?

2005-04-17 Thread Robert Spier
> The rsync off of cvs.perl.org::parrot-HEAD as suggested on parrotcode.org > contains .svn directories. This doesn't seem right. Fixed.

forced manifest check

2005-04-16 Thread Robert Spier
> > Well, it always depends, how responds looks like: > > Committed revision 1234 > > * > ATT MAINFEST ERROR > missing bla.bla ... > * This is very similar to what it did under CVS, although maybe not quite as big. Anyway, if this

Re: Takers wanted - a perl job

2005-04-13 Thread Robert Spier
> > Doesn't work when svk is used to check out the copy. But in that case > > svk list -R does. > > Hmm. Maybe this should be a commit action and not a test. It was under CVS. I'm pretty sure everyone ignored it there :) -R

Re: Welcome to the land of Subversion

2005-04-13 Thread Robert Spier
At Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:07:05 -0400, Roger Hale wrote: > > Robert Spier wrote: > >>Could that be added as 4th line? > > Good ideas, all of them. I've updated the page to add that, and to > > switch to bz2. > > -R > > Following Nicholas Clark: &g

Re: Welcome to the land of Subversion

2005-04-12 Thread Robert Spier
> Could that be added as 4th line? Good ideas, all of them. I've updated the page to add that, and to switch to bz2. -R

Re: [svn:parrot] rev 7800 - trunk/t/perl

2005-04-11 Thread Robert Spier
> Fixed hopefully. > > $ find -name '*.t' | xargs svn ps svn:mime-type text/plain > $ svn ci ... Yes, that'll fix it. Probably worth checking the mime-types for all the other files. > and that dam.. check in runs for more then 10 minutes now Ick. The network pipe is a little congested today,

Re: Welcome to the land of Subversion

2005-04-10 Thread Robert Spier
> > The conversion is done. > > http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html > > Have fun! > Sweet! Is there any particular reason why everyone should use https? > Shouldn't http do for non-committers? Or am I nitpicking here? Not really. http is fine for non-committers. But it was easier to just doc

Welcome to the land of Subversion

2005-04-10 Thread Robert Spier
The conversion is done. http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html Have fun! If there are issues, let me know, and I'll fix em when I get back. Everyone who could commit before, should be able to commit now. If you find things slow, it's because everyone is trying to check out at once. -R (gettin

Re: CVS going away

2005-04-10 Thread Robert Spier
> I've disabled all CVS write permissions as part of the transition. > (Yes, this means wheels are turning.) CVS will stay readable, but un-writable until tomorrow morning, when I hope to announce SVN being up. The import is running while I sleep. I caught I minor issue halfway into the previous

CVS going away

2005-04-09 Thread Robert Spier
I've disabled all CVS write permissions as part of the transition. (Yes, this means wheels are turning.)

Re: Subversion in the wings

2005-04-07 Thread Robert Spier
> > Any questions? > I assume current committer bits will be transitioned over too? Actually, this would be a great time to get signed committer agreements from everyone. But, since that probably isn't going to happen, I'll just move over all the bits. -R

Subversion in the wings

2005-04-07 Thread Robert Spier
Due to popular demand, among many other reasons, parrot will be switching to Subversion at some point in the next few days. I've placed a test conversion at https://svn.perl.org/parrot-test/ (It mirrors the state of the CVS repository as of this morning.) Please take a look at it, and make sure

Re: Monthly Release Schedule

2005-04-07 Thread Robert Spier
> It was on parrotcode or dev.perl.org at some point. > Maybe that can be reused? Our tinderbox.perl.org volunteer is working on it. We've been nudging him, and he's got some cool stuff going on.

design docs on dev.perl.org -- Re: +<< or +

2005-04-03 Thread Robert Spier
> The definitive answer is +< -- the pod document at > http://dev.perl.org/perl6/synopsis/S03.html is out of date. > This has been corrected in the perl6 svn repository for some time > (http://svn.perl.org/perl6/doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod), but I don't > know the magic for getting updates in the

OSCON Call For Proposals Now Open

2005-01-21 Thread Robert Spier
From: O'Reilly Conferences <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: OSCON Call For Proposals Now Open Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:30:03 -0800 The Call for Proposals has just opened for the 7th Annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2005/ OSCON is headed back to friendly, ec

Re: CIA

2005-01-13 Thread Robert Spier
> > Parrot is now listed on CIA > > (insert-at-point (spook)) > > Ooo. spook's phrasebook is strictly US-ASCII. That's totally CIA-compatible, > isn't it? Probably. But they're still after those computer criminals. And folks who use laser pointers. -R

CIA

2005-01-12 Thread Robert Spier
Parrot is now listed on CIA http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/parrot This will track all future commits, making them available as a RSS feed, etc. This slows down commits a little because of some work the script does to try and merge requests. I can tweak a little if people start noticing a del

Re: Fwd: Out of Office Contact

2004-12-22 Thread Robert Spier
Mr. Cowgill's computer did not send such a message to the list. (It's not in the archive.) He sent it to you directly. -R At Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:27:51 -0800 (PST), Ovid wrote: > > OK, everyone send Mr. Cowgilll a polite message letting him know that, > in the future, he needs to not send thes

Re: svn

2004-12-08 Thread Robert Spier
> While I personally like the idea, I think it is unlikely given how > much slower svn is on sizable repositories. Of course I have not > tried it recently, so maybe that has changed... > All that being said, I am in absolutely no position of authority about this... This is, and always has been,

Re: RT Ticket Summary

2004-11-18 Thread Robert Spier
> I'd like to see: ... http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/parrot/Overview.html

Re: Streams and Filters (Ticket #31921)

2004-11-07 Thread Robert Spier
> (In my opinion, the line-ending issue isn't a problem for Parrot in > terms of this test--it's legitimate to expect that you can process a > particular file, not matter what platform you happen to be on, and no > matter if the file happens to have been created on another platform.) Also, the pro

libjit

2004-10-25 Thread Robert Spier
Is there anything that can be learned/reused from libjit? http://www.southern-storm.com.au/libjit.html -R

Re: [perl #32118] [PATCH] Update of documentation

2004-10-24 Thread Robert Spier
> Maybe there are some good links to Tinderbox or Bonsai or ViewCVS or they > are only temporarily down, I don't know, but having non-functional > references in documentation is not very good. Tinderbox is temporarily down. Either Zach needs to fix it, or I need to finish my replacement for it.

Re: [perl #32118] AutoReply: [PATCH] Update of documentation

2004-10-24 Thread Robert Spier
> - do not change viewcvs in glossary.doc to cvsweb, just correct the > link Please _do_ change all references to cvsweb to viewcvs. Unless there is a compelling reason, we will continue to phase out use of cvsweb. viewcvs is faster, cleaner, and has more features. -R

Perl5 Bug Summary

2004-09-07 Thread Robert Spier
[ We're down a handful this week... but not by much... thanks to Steve Peters for going through some of the old ones and identifiying things that can be closed. ] Perl5 Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/perl5/Overview.html Generated at Mon Sep 6 13:00:02 2004 GMT

Re: parrot cvs mirrored with svk

2004-08-27 Thread Robert Spier
This now lives at http://svn.perl.org/parrot/cvs/ (use guest/guest) http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/parrot/cvs/trunk/ It is updated from CVS once an hour. Have fun! -R At Sat, 7 Aug 2004 09:52:30 +0100, Chia-liang Kao wrote: > > [1 ] > Hi, > > I've just setup a Subversion mirror of the parrot

Re: PATCH for parrotcode.org

2004-08-15 Thread Robert Spier
At Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:05:34 -0400, William Coleda wrote: > > [1 ] > Attached find a patch to http://www.parrotcode.org/examples/index.html that: > > (0) depends on a patch I sent to the webmaster folks earlier adding back in the > docs/* hierarchy (a small shim of .html files that just points

Re: Redoing the Phalanx 100

2004-08-08 Thread Robert Spier
> Last year, I got different logs from Graham and Pair. Any other > suggestions since they're apparently the same now? Mirror-owners I > should talk to? You could ask Graham for the search.cpan.org logs. Those are potentially interesting. -R

Re: Redoing the Phalanx 100

2004-08-08 Thread Robert Spier
> I'll be redoing the Phalanx 100 this week. I'm hoping to get FTP logs > from pair.com and from cpan.org. If anyone else has FTP logs they can > submit to me, I'd love to have 'em. $ host cpan.org cpan.org has address 66.39.76.93 $ host cpan.pair.com cpan.pair.com has address 66.39.76.93

Re: [CVS] meta

2004-08-03 Thread Robert Spier
> CVS ci rights for Jarkko would be fine, Please send all requests like (and including) this one to cvs at perl.org. -R

Re: Aaargh. The return of platforms

2004-07-20 Thread Robert Spier
> There's a directory platforms reappeared in parrot's CVS at the top level > This breaks checkouts on any case insensitive file system, because CVS > already knows about the file PLATFORMS > We need the repository edited to expunge the directory platforms, don't we? > Either that or the file PLATF

Yet another Math Library

2004-06-30 Thread Robert Spier
This might be useful... (thanks planetlisp!) Chris Double Wed Jun 30 17:22:09 2004 http://radio.weblogs.com/0102385/2004/07/01.html#a625 I came across a free portable arbitary precision integer and rational arithmentic library called [1]IMath that looks useful. It is und

Re: Q: PIO_unix_pipe

2004-06-07 Thread Robert Spier
> Yeah, good point. pipeopen maybe? (Though then that gets confused with > regular pipes) childproc? If it weren't so darned fundamental to the > languages we care about I'd just throw the thing into the standard library > and punt on it entirely... It seems like an example of opcode bloat to me.

Re: Please become ID verified.

2004-05-25 Thread Robert Spier
At Tue, 25 May 2004 10:36:24 -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote: > > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:48:45PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: > > > > is there a paypal PMC in the plans? will it be multi-accounted? will it > > have built in auth support? what about rounding errors? > > In case it was not obvious, th

Re: Outstanding parrot issues?

2004-05-04 Thread Robert Spier
> ICU somehow manages (optionally?) to suffix all it its symbols with > the version number, automagically (meaning, they don't look that way > in the source or the headers). We should figure out how they are doing > that, and see if we can use the same approach. I don't know if it's > linker magic,

Re: [perl #28915] parrotbug can only send mail

2004-04-20 Thread Robert Spier
> Speaking about parrotbug, are the [EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses > created? What do they currently do? parrotbug@ sends to the tracker status-{ok,nok}@ currently end up in mailboxes that nobody reads -R

Re: RT

2004-04-08 Thread Robert Spier
> clarification on some others - outgoing emails were being eaten by a > grue for a while, but Robert says it's fixed now - I'll be sending out To clarify. Only explicit CC's to the list were broken. All other outbound mail was fine. -R

Re: patching Changelog

2004-04-08 Thread Robert Spier
> > > b) Is it kosher/proper to update email references in it? > > Sure. Disagreement. This makes it harder to find relevant email messages in the archives. -R

Re: CVS error message

2004-04-01 Thread Robert Spier
I've sent this off to the person who maintains that script. In the future, the best place for reporting perl.org CVS related problems is cvs at perl.org -R At Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:10:28 +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > $ sh ../allow\ temp\ vars\ as\ functions\:\ \$P0\(\).sh > Access allo

Re: Tinderbox "aniani" brocken

2004-03-31 Thread Robert Spier
> >about to cvs checkout parrot: > >/home/perlcvs: no such repository > > Ah, that's finally gone away. The repository path is /cvs/publoc. > What you're using's very old, though there was a temporary symlink in > for a while. It's been gone for months and months. And you mean /cvs/public.

Re: cvs update problem.

2004-03-16 Thread Robert Spier
I can't replicate this. At Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:55:22 -0500, Will Coleda wrote: > bash-2.05a$ rm -f languages/tcl/lib/match_close.imc > bash-2.05a$ cvs update languages/tcl/lib/match_close.imc > cvs: rcs.c:4091: RCS_checkout: Assertion `options[0] == '-' && > options[1] == 'k'' failed. > cvs [ser

Re: web site down?

2004-03-16 Thread Robert Spier
> http://www.parrotcode.org/ is not responding to http or ping. Yes. We knew. All happy now. -R

Re: parrotbug working...

2004-03-11 Thread Robert Spier
> But what should those addresses do when receiving a message? > - parrotbug: should open a RT ticket? Yes. This is the new equivalent of bugs-parrot at rt.perl.org. Use of that address should be phased out in favor of the new one. > - status-ok: ? > - status-nok: should open a RT ticket

Re: [offtopic] Fwd: ScanMail Message: To Sender virus found or matched file blocking setting.

2004-03-11 Thread Robert Spier
At Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:00:18 +0100, Jens Rieks wrote: > > [1 ] > Hi, > > Am I the only one who receives this annoying message each time I send an .tgz > attachment to the list? > You're the only one who has complained. I'll unsubscribe the offender. -R

Re: news gateway through google not working?

2004-03-10 Thread Robert Spier
> > > > That depends if google properly supports "moderated" newsgroups. > > Sounds like they don't ... > > In any case we don't currently support posting via nntp through > anything but nntp.perl.org. Actually, I think we need to get the uunet.uu.net folks to setup some entries for us. But I

Re: news gateway through google not working?

2004-03-10 Thread Robert Spier
That depends if google properly supports "moderated" newsgroups. Without knowing what they're doing, it's hard to guess what's going on or where your message got eaten. Your message _shouldn't_ show up on google unless it comes through a proper newsfeed. This might mean that google's upstream (

Re: [DOCS] Documentation tools

2004-03-05 Thread Robert Spier
> > > > "within reason". Thats where we're way off right now. > > Let's keep a bit of perspective here. The non-Parrot:: contents of lib > accounts for only 4.6% of the non-ICU content (and only 1.5% if you > count ICU in the total size). It's difficult to see that as > unreasonable, or as "bl

Re: [DOCS] Documentation tools

2004-03-04 Thread Robert Spier
> But once we start expecting people in the real world to compile this thing > on their boxes in order to install perl, it would be extremely foolish to > make them manually download and install perl6 + parrot + icu + perl5 + > cpan modules 1 through 10, all from different sources. Try building

Re: MANIFEST problems (was: Re: cvs commit: parrot parrotbug)

2004-03-04 Thread Robert Spier
> > This kind of bug shouldn't happen if people actually read the messages > > the cvs commit spits out. > > > > It will tell you that the manifest check it runs on every commit > > fails. Please don't ignore it. > Maybe a silly proposal, but nevertheless: > Why are files not added to MANIFEST aut

Re: [DOCS] Documentation tools

2004-03-04 Thread Robert Spier
> The determinism seems perhaps worth the bloat. It's quite localize > bloat after all. I disagree. We _want_ a heterogeneous environment -- a homogeneous environment doesn't exist in the real world -- most of your concerns were with tracking down the issues. Since we have parrotbug now (or rea

Re: parrotbug working...

2004-03-04 Thread Robert Spier
> The mails are indeed sent to parrotbug, parrotstatus-ok and > parrotstatus-nok (at parrotcode.org) for resp. bug reports, ok reports > or nok reports. And since I don't think those addresses are set > up... Not yet. I'm nudging Ask regularly about this. -R

Re: Dates and Times

2004-03-04 Thread Robert Spier
> I agree. That's why I'd like to see TAI be the default "seconds > since some epoch". It seems like we want the "default" to be the simplest and fastest one we can support. If someone wants something different, they can do the moral equivalent of: use Time::TAI; or use Time::UTC; or

Re: [DOCS] Documentation tools

2004-03-04 Thread Robert Spier
> > No. Sorry, definitely not. Parrot's config isn't going to install > > perl modules off the 'net any more than it's going to run apt-get on > > systems that support it. We either provide it or do without. > > What about ICU. There is already a new version pending (again). Since we haven't act

Re: [DOCS] Documentation tools

2004-03-04 Thread Robert Spier
> >I'd like to remove non-modified, non-parrot Perl modules from lib > >and install them via CPAN.pm. > > No. Sorry, definitely not. Parrot's config isn't going to install > perl modules off the 'net any more than it's going to run apt-get on > systems that support it. We either provide it or

Re: www.parrotcode.org/ points to 0.0.10

2004-03-04 Thread Robert Spier
> In a similar(?) vein, > > www.parrotcode.org/faq/ currently has a number of broken links, > including "apocalypses", "PDD6", and "Java bytecode to Parrot bytecode". This is because the links are funny. The best way to get proper links is to do something like: Lhttp://www.cnn.com> That's no

Re: www.parrotcode.org/ points to 0.0.10

2004-03-03 Thread Robert Spier
ely: > > http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=27304 > > On Wednesday, March 3, 2004, at 01:15 AM, Robert Spier wrote: > > > > > As promised. > > > > The "new" site is now live. > > > > -R > > > -- > Will "Coke" Coledawill at coleda > dot com

Re: open issue review (easy stuff)

2004-03-03 Thread Robert Spier
> Bored now! /me runs and hides. Applied! (I should just give you access.) -R > > On Wednesday, March 3, 2004, at 06:39 PM, Robert Spier wrote: > > >> ... and then I got bored. > > > > ;) > > > > Thanks, all those changes applied.

Re: cvs commit: parrot parrotbug

2004-03-03 Thread Robert Spier
> parrotbug is missing in MANIFEST which causes a make test error. This kind of bug shouldn't happen if people actually read the messages the cvs commit spits out. It will tell you that the manifest check it runs on every commit fails. Please don't ignore it. -R

Re: More closeable tickets in RT

2004-03-03 Thread Robert Spier
> > 26898, 26904, 26927, 26939, 26941, 26945, 26953, > > 26956, 26964, 26976, 27097, 27098, 27143, 27150 -- spam > already reported these and they are to be "cleaned out soon" ;) > (there have been a few spam slippages lately) Killed. I still need to go back and do the monthly spam filter upda

Re: open issue review (easy stuff)

2004-03-03 Thread Robert Spier
> ... and then I got bored. ;) Thanks, all those changes applied. -R

Re: www.parrotcode.org/ points to 0.0.10

2004-03-02 Thread Robert Spier
As promised. The "new" site is now live. -R > > This is on my list for tonight. I've got something all ready to go > but have been busy with a $NEW_JOB. > > -R > > At Tue, 2 Mar 2004 00:44:02 -0500, > Mitchell N Charity wrote: > > > > The parrot homepage > > http://www.parrotcode.org/

Re: www.parrotcode.org/ points to 0.0.10

2004-03-02 Thread Robert Spier
This is on my list for tonight. I've got something all ready to go but have been busy with a $NEW_JOB. -R At Tue, 2 Mar 2004 00:44:02 -0500, Mitchell N Charity wrote: > > The parrot homepage > http://www.parrotcode.org/ > currently says > Periodic releases will appear on CPAN; the current

Re: [PATCH] parrotbug 0.0.1

2004-03-01 Thread Robert Spier
> - it only accepts -ok / -nok flags (no *real* bug reports to be >edited) This may or may not be good. We need a new processing system (for perl5 too) to deal with the -ok reports. > - I'm not sure about the reporting address (Robert, I need your advice > on this one) I suppose, it sho

Re: www.parrotcode.org

2004-02-28 Thread Robert Spier
> Given that the new webpage won't be replacing the old webpage in time > for this upcoming release... > > I suggest we make a few simple modifications to the _existing > website_. I'm not going to make any more changes to the existing website, but since you asked nicely, I made these. > Also, a

Re: www.parrotcode.org

2004-02-27 Thread Robert Spier
> I brought this up several months ago and was told that a new webpage was > in the works. Where in the works is it? Does it have an expected time > to leave the works? I agree with Mitchell that it is important to > maintain a public face (lest we send the wrong impression). It will be leav

Re: [CVS ci] PLATFORMS

2004-02-25 Thread Robert Spier
> >>Better it get fixed in CVS. There could be more errors of this kind. > > Confused. What would you like me to do? > > Please purge the platforms directory on the server. It collides with the > PLATFORMS file on these poor pseudo-OS, that have case-insensitive > filenames. (There could also s

Re: [CVS ci] PLATFORMS

2004-02-24 Thread Robert Spier
> > After a bit of self-education on the CVS FAQ, I've come to the > > conclusion that "renaming" (delete/add) PLATFORMS to PLATFORMS.txt is > > the best way to solve this. > > Better it get fixed in CVS. There could be more errors of this kind. Confused. What would you like me to do? Also. cv

Re: [DOCS] Documentation tools

2004-02-06 Thread Robert Spier
> Suppose I could make a few changes to Pod-Simple, then our problem > would be solved. Pod::Simple is relatively easy to subclass. And Sean is pretty receptive to changes. > never have occurred to me to shove all of that in CVS. It always > surprised me a that ICU was there, rather than just

Re: Patch vaporized?

2004-02-05 Thread Robert Spier
> Either merge them or close 26056 as wontfix or equivalent (sorry, I'm > a Bugzilla feak :). The first patch has conflicts with current source, > which is why I freaked out when it didn't show up pronto. Done. Sorry for the trouble. -R

Re: Patch vaporized?

2004-02-05 Thread Robert Spier
I think I've tracked this down, mostly. The patch was rejected from the mailing list because it was too big. (Several hundred k.) You can find it in RT as 26056: [PATCH] Unify PMC accessor macros 2 26057: [PATCH] Unified PMC/PObj accessors phase 2 (26057 is one that points to a URL. Gordon,

Re: Patch vaporized?

2004-02-05 Thread Robert Spier
> Did it have an executable attachment? :-) If anyone wants some MyDoom, I've got over a gigabyte (from the past 19 or so hours) absorbed by the perl.org servers I'd be glad to share with you. I can arrange for them to be emailed one at a time, or all at once. -R

Re: Patch vaporized?

2004-02-05 Thread Robert Spier
At Thu, 5 Feb 2004 11:25:22 -0500, Gordon Henriksen wrote: > > [1 ] > I've submitted a patch to bugs-parrot, and it didn't seem to get posted > to RT or otherwise handled. Anyone know where it might've gone? I'm the one who would know. Please email me off-list with the message-id, subject, from

Re: [DOCS] Documentation tools

2004-02-05 Thread Robert Spier
> I can possibly help it, so it's ok by me to delete lib/Pod, if that's > the consensus. I'm not sure what the consensus is. But we should probably come to one. -R

Re: [DOCS] Documentation tools

2004-02-04 Thread Robert Spier
> I've added the Perl modules for the docs tools to lib/Parrot/IO and > lib/Parrot/Docs. I've also added Pod-Simple (2.05) and Pod-Escapes > (1.03) which they use. I probably blinked.. but why are we including CPAN modules that we are not likely to change into the parrot repository? -R

Re: Mail troubles

2004-01-30 Thread Robert Spier
Melvin, We're having some issues at perl.org due to the worm/virus/bounce stuff. Slow delivery is just something we're going to have to deal with for a few more days... but bounces I don't like. If your legitamite email is getting bounced by the perl.org (develooper.com) ser

Re: open issue review (easy stuff)

2004-01-23 Thread Robert Spier
> Right, good point. In that case, if we could give our intrepid and > possibly slightly mad volunteers Dave Pippenger (dpippen) and > Stephane Peiry (stephane) privs on the bug and todo queue for parrot, > that'd be great -- we can start handing out todo tickets to folks for > doing. done-o.

Re: open issue review (easy stuff)

2004-01-22 Thread Robert Spier
> Is there any way to get RT to close tickets (or change their status) > entirely via e-mail? That'd make this a lot easier if we could throw > a: > RT-Status: Closed > or something like it in the reply to a bug report that notes the bug > has been fixed. I could implement this, but there are a

Re: open issue review (easy stuff)

2004-01-20 Thread Robert Spier
> Thanks for taking this on. No problemo. > > 22558: Another Hack at constant propogation > Aplied or Fixed and then applied (I forget which) > > > 24847: [patch] simplify register stacks (remove code duplication) > Reject (resubmitted late as a different patch which was applied) Noted. (FYI,

open issue review (easy stuff)

2004-01-20 Thread Robert Spier
Here are 177 currently outstanding parrot issues in the RT system. You can see more detail on them by going to: http://rt.perl.org/ clicking on guest access, and then typing the number into the upper right hand corner box. what we're mostly looking for are issues that can already be marked a

Re: The todo list

2004-01-20 Thread Robert Spier
> In the mean time, if anyone else has todo list items, send them > (*ONE* per e-mail!) to bugs-parrot at bugs6.perl.org to get 'em in > the queue and we'll start sorting them out from there. If we're lucky > and have sufficient web luck we might even get 'em into a > web-accessible TODO list (

Re: Patch submission gone missing?

2004-01-02 Thread Robert Spier
> I didn't realize there was moderation. (How was spam getting through?) Spam was getting through because when I upgraded RT, I didn't re-insert some of my envelope massaging magic, which meant that spam was looking as if it was coming from a "valid" address, when it really wasn't. Once I re-inse

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