Re: Font used for raku welcome message

2021-08-27 Thread James Cloos
a ttf font which supports the MATHEMATICAL BOLD unicode block. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6

Re: A s/// brain teaser to share

2018-05-02 Thread James Ellis Osborne III
Don't say innocent if you mean punchline. On Tue, May 1, 2018, 10:46 PM ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > You guys will noticed a bunch of things you have been helping me with > in the following. Thank you! > > :-) > > I have been working on cleaning up the file transfer of data from a > point

[perl #132329] [MATH] Rat → Num conversion isn’t monotonous

2017-10-20 Thread James E Keenan via RT
Should the last word in the Subject be 'monotonic' rather than 'monotonous'? -- James E Keenan (jkee...@cpan.org)

Re: <<>> question

2017-10-05 Thread James Ellis Osborne III
MIME Is The Sacha Guitry Picture. On Oct 4, 2017 8:23 PM, "Todd Chester" wrote: > On 10/04/2017 08:20 PM, Todd Chester wrote: > >> So in this context "{$x}" means insert (interpolate) a >> variable into the list? I was thinking it meant to >> insert a variable into a string. Did saying <<>> >>

Re: Tip: hash indexing

2017-10-03 Thread James Ellis Osborne III
Canadian Handicrafts Guild On Oct 3, 2017 11:22 AM, "ToddAndMargo" wrote: > Sweet!I added a reverse print to the pile! > > > #!/usr/bin/env perl6 > > #`{ > Hashes do not print in the order they are created. it is a Perl 6 thing. > To overcome this, create an index of the hash. > } > >

Re: Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.07

2016-07-22 Thread James Ellis Osborne III
That is quite a step forward! Happy 22nd, All! On Jul 22, 2016 4:01 AM, "Steve Mynott" wrote: > > On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I’m pleased to > announce the July 2016 release of “Rakudo Star”, a useful and usable > production distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the J

Re: DBIish: Why can't I interpolate variable holding database name?

2016-05-01 Thread James E Keenan
On 05/01/2016 09:12 AM, Mathieu Gagnonn wrote: Hello James, You can try :database($db) Look at this http://design.perl6.org/S02.html#Adverbial_Pair_forms I've found it very useful! James E Keenan writes: Yesterday I made my first attempt at using any library in a Perl6 pr

DBIish: Why can't I interpolate variable holding database name?

2016-05-01 Thread James E Keenan
Yesterday I made my first attempt at using any library in a Perl6 program -- specifically, DBIish. The following succeeded in establishing a connection to a Postgresql database named 'hierarchy' on the same disk as Perl6: # $ cat dbiish_connect.pl6 #!/usr/bin/env perl6 use DBIish; my $db

Re: A practical benchmark shows speed challenges for Perl 6

2016-03-30 Thread James E Keenan
On 03/30/2016 04:11 PM, yary wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: Thanks for your thoughts! I’ve implemented $*DEFAULT-READ-ELEMS in https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/5bd1e . Of course, all of this is provisional, and open for debate and bikeshedding.

Re: 'split': differences between Perl5 and Perl6

2016-02-27 Thread James E Keenan
On 02/27/2016 08:38 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: [...] is what used to be (?:...), and <[...]> is what used to be [...]. Regexes have changed a *lot*, and you will really need to learn how they work now; just hoping that things work just like perl 5 will not work. My apologies for being a Per

'split': differences between Perl5 and Perl6

2016-02-27 Thread James E Keenan
I am trying to understand the differences in the way the 'split' function works between Perl5 and Perl6. Consider this string: # $str = q|This is a string to be split|; # Let's suppose I wish to split this string on the multi-character delimiter string 'tri'. The results are the same

Re: Perl 6 advocacy needs a mailing list

2016-02-05 Thread James E Keenan
On 02/05/2016 09:01 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 07:18:01AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: I would like to see such a list. It would help separate some of us bloviators, dreamers, and hand wavers from the others on the users list. Any reason not to use advoc...@perl.org ? It is

Installing both from rakudobrew and Rakudo Star

2016-02-04 Thread James E Keenan
Follow-up questions to those I posed on perl6-users today. So I have successfully used rakudobrew to build moar and panda. That perl6 executable is located here: $ which perl6 /home/jkeenan/.rakudobrew/bin/perl6 Now, suppose I *also* wish to install Rakudo Star. I've downloaded the rakudo-s

Re: Confused about rakudobrew and Rakudo Star

2016-02-04 Thread James E Keenan
On 02/03/2016 10:48 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 10:30 PM, James E Keenan wrote: I am evidently confused as to the relationship, if any, between the 'rakudobrew' utility and the Rakudo::Star distribution. In short: rakudobrew is for the folks who want to

Confused about rakudobrew and Rakudo Star

2016-02-03 Thread James E Keenan
I am evidently confused as to the relationship, if any, between the 'rakudobrew' utility and the Rakudo::Star distribution. Several weeks ago, when it became apparent that there would be delays in the release of a Rakudo Star distribution with the "Christmas" release in it, I executed the foll

Re: Needed: Rakudo Star with 6.c Christmas Perl 6 release

2016-01-25 Thread James E Keenan
On 01/25/2016 08:49 AM, Will Coleda wrote: FYI, http://blogs.perl.org/users/coke/2016/01/perl-6c-christmas-rakudo-star-coming-soon.html We hope to have an R* release out in the next two weeks. Thanks for your patience. Thanks for the update! jimk

Re: '!' versus 'not' in boolean expression

2016-01-18 Thread James Ellis Osborne III
Too many Reimanns & Not enough role? -jas On 18 January 2016 at 11:37, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > >> On 18 Jan 2016, at 19:55, Tom Browder wrote: >> >> In creating some new Perl 6 programs I've run across several instances >> I'm confused about, to wit: >> >> Example 1 >> --- >> >

Needed: Rakudo Star with 6.c Christmas Perl 6 release

2016-01-16 Thread James E Keenan
Today, I posted on the ny.pm mailing list an announcement that I will attempt to organize a Perl 6 Beginners study group in New York City. I have been advised that for an introductory-level group, the Rakudo Star release would be the way to go. However, when I went here: http://rakudo.org/

Re: Recalling previous commands

2016-01-01 Thread James Ellis Osborne III
Try Out Linenoise https://github.com/hoelzro/p6-linenoise/ panda install Linenoise -jas On 1 January 2016 at 13:52, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Every time I make a typo in a complex command, I reflexively hit >> ctrl-k

Re: $epsilon = 1.0e-6 feels too big for Rat()

2015-12-31 Thread James Ellis Osborne III
Considering that the Chinese 5th Century is 1849, I would expect http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015046627348 to present less zuo. -jas On 31 December 2015 at 03:48, Darren Duncan wrote: > Considering that a non-fat Rat has a 64-bit denominator, I would expect > conversions from Num

Hello List! Error found in glossary.pod

2015-12-27 Thread James Ellis Osborne III
Line 1585:1587 Reads: -- =head2 NST No Such Thing. -- Surely Thi[j]s Is No Longer True? -jas

Entry for perl6-users list missing from http://lists.perl.org/all.html#p

2014-09-08 Thread James E Keenan
Information about the perl6-users mailing list/newsgroup cannot be found in the canonical location at lists.perl.org (link in Subject). I filed a bug report with perl.org (122724). Robert directed me to this page: http://lists.perl.org/data.html. This page provides a procedure by which a con

Status of Perl 6 on JVM

2014-09-07 Thread James E Keenan
I would like to know the best way to keep apprised of the status of development of Perl 6 on the JVM. I realize that the README cautions, "Rakudo Star fully supports MoarVM and Parrot; not all modules work on the JVM at present." I don't have much familiarity with the JVM, other than a little

Re: Commensurability as Key

2013-08-21 Thread James Bowery
The terms "function" and "relation" as used in programming languages have meanings carved out of the pure concepts by the, sometimes, judicious application of Ockham's Chainsaw Massacre in order to "get things done". I am speaking of the pure concepts. Procedures are sequences of statements. Sta

Change Propagation

2013-08-21 Thread James Bowery
Backing off from the esoterica, is Per6 lazy machinery going to include a feature like the one I suggested for MooseX here: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1050219

Re: Commensurability as Key

2013-08-19 Thread James Bowery
Maybe Perl 7. On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Let's get the basics nailed down and working so that we can learn > them, before wandering any further into theoretical CS. > > On 8/18/13, James Bowery wrote: > > Of t

Commensurability as Key

2013-08-18 Thread James Bowery
Of the two key conceptual gaps in current programming language philosophy -- commensurability and change propagation -- commensurability, if filled with due rigor, has the greatest potential for clearing up confusion by recasting other core features as derivative. Change propagation (eg: properly

RE: [perl #117237] error building rakudo star 2013.02

2013-03-22 Thread James Buster
> Parrot's loadlib directive normally looks in > $prefix/lib/parrot//dynext, so I'm not exactly sure what the problem > is here. > I doubt it's looking only in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib, as you suggest. > Something else must be at play here. So I understand, perl6 is executing a parrot direc

[perl #76828] Rakudo Star 'make' fails on Darwin/PPC

2011-09-24 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Fri Jul 30 17:58:48 2010, coke wrote: > > Based on recent history, I think 1G is the minimum recommend memory > for building rakudo > (for that file in particular). > > Someone should probably add this to the README. Has the Rakudo project established minimum recommended memory requirements f

Parrot 3.6.0 "Pájaros del Caribe" Released

2011-07-18 Thread James E Keenan
s for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. The following people (in random order) contributed to this release. Thanks! Julian Albo, Matt Boyle, Vasily Chekalkin, chromatic, Will Coleda, Bruce Gray, Brian Gernhardt, Michael H. Hind, James E Keenan, Bob Kuo, Andy

Re: Parrot Developer Summit Q1 2011 date

2011-05-04 Thread James E Keenan
On May 4, 2011, at 1:37 AM, Christoph Otto wrote: Hi all, Thanks to those who filled out the doodle to indicate your availability for the next Parrot Developer Summit. The slots with the fewest conflicts were at the same time on different weeks. I've closed the doodle poll and marked S

[perl #76808] Searching for libraries under MacOS X

2011-01-09 Thread James Keenan via RT
Cf. these Parrot tickets, which appear to relate to the same problem: http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/344 http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/1890 kid51

[perl #76828] Rakudo Star 'make' fails on Darwin/PPC

2010-09-26 Thread James Keenan via RT
Cf. also this ticket reported to Parrot's ticketing system: http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/1804

[perl #77464] Rakudo Star: Trim down disk space once installed

2010-08-30 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Sat Aug 28 12:16:35 2010, pmichaud wrote: > > 1. Download the Rakudo Star tarball. > 2. Unpack the tarball. > 3. Run Configure.pl, passing the ultimate install dir to --prefix. > Since you ultimately want to eliminate the install stuff, make > sure the install is somewhere outside o

[perl #77464] Rakudo Star: Trim down disk space once installed

2010-08-28 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Fri Aug 27 10:16:43 2010, coke wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Patrick R. Michaud > > > > Perhaps a "make clean" target would be sufficient here? > > Great minds think alike ;-) ! A 'make' target crossed my mind while unable to sleep last night. > > I don't think so. that'll still

[perl #77464] Rakudo Star: Trim down disk space once installed

2010-08-28 Thread James Keenan via RT
Let me describe my first naïve attempt at dealing with this problem. Looking at my top-level directory: > [rakudo-star-2010.08] 502 $ ll > total 14452 > -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 6633 Aug 25 09:17 Configure.pl > -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 8902 Aug 25 09:17 LICENSE > -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 1

[perl #76828] Rakudo Star 'make' fails on Darwin/PPC

2010-08-01 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Fri Jul 30 06:20:30 2010, coke wrote: > > How much memory do you have in the box (physical), ... >From 'top': PhysMem: 46.3M wired, 137M active, 68.7M inactive, 252M used, 3.68M free >From System Profiler: Memory: 256 MB > and do you have a ulimit set? Apparently not: $ ulimit -a

Re: Ordering in \bbold{C}

2010-03-29 Thread James Cloos
course. Obviosuly. I should have noticed that and do not know why I missed it. [SIGH]. I guess I must think of lex ordering mostly when thinking of /real/ polynomials How narrow-minded. ☺ M> Specifically, because -1 is a square in ℂ, ℂ being an ordered field M> would require that -1

Ordering in \bbold{C}

2010-03-28 Thread James Cloos
+ i·b₂, then: | | A ≤ B if a₁ < b₁ || ( a₁ == b₁ && a₂ ≤ b₂ ) | A ≥ B if a₁ < b₁ || ( a₁ == b₁ && a₂ ≥ b₂ ) | ` I wonder whether having such an ordering available would be beneficial for Perl, or for coding in general? -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: numerics, roles, and naming

2010-03-14 Thread James Cloos
his name Gauß? If so, then Gauß or Gauss, yes? In general, though, I agree with the thesis. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: Comments on S32/Numeric#Complex

2009-12-18 Thread James Cloos
operations on double complex, float complex and long double complex values, following its convention of using an f suffix for float, l suffix for long double and a c prefix for complex. It would be reasonable for perl6 to have .arg to match .angle. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: Comments on S32/Numeric#Complex

2009-12-18 Thread James Cloos
> It would be reasonable for perl6 to have .arg to match .angle. [SIGH] ☹ Obviously, I meant to say: It would be reasonable for perl6 to have .arg to match¹ .abs. 1] or to complement, perhaps? ☺ -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

[perl #58990] [TODO] Design new spec coverage mechanism

2009-09-27 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Tue Sep 22 10:39:17 2009, fperrad wrote: > > > > FYI, some existing tools (but not Perl) > - FIT : http://fit.c2.com/ > - FitNesse & Slim : http://fitnesse.org/ > François, Thanks for the reference. If someone wants to examine these links and open a TT, they are welcome to do so. In the mea

[perl #58740] [CAGE] t/configure/*.t and t/steps/*.t: Cleanup test setup/teardown code

2009-09-27 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Mon Sep 21 15:28:01 2009, jk...@verizon.net wrote: > > So, unless there is some strong objection, I will close this ticket > within 7 days. > No one spoke up for this; rejecting ticket.

[perl #41500] [TODO] config - lib directory needs to be set appropriately for 32/64 bit archs

2009-09-25 Thread James Keenan via RT
This ticket has been open for more than two-and-a-half years -- solely on the basis of an ancient inline comment. In that time no one has produced any evidence that we are doing the wrong thing. Given how many of our developers are currently working on AMD64, I would have expected that by now som

[perl #53104] [BUG] dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _parrot_i386_cmpxchg (icu?)

2009-09-19 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Wed Sep 16 05:49:12 2009, cognominal wrote: > the report is not relevant anymore. you can close the ticket. Thx > Closing.

[perl #60048] [BUG] [MMD] CGP Does Not Work with PCC Runcore Reentry

2009-09-15 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Wed Feb 25 16:08:29 2009, jk...@verizon.net wrote: > On Thu Jan 29 06:15:28 2009, Whiteknight wrote: > > > > has the remove_pic branch landed yet? > > > Well, it's still an active branch in SVN. So I would guess not. Per discussion on the mailing list, we're removing the remove_pic branch

Re: Synopsis 02: Range objects

2009-08-28 Thread James Cloos
it from widespread use of efficient interval techniques is significant. All that said, it may be the case that the .. syntax, though useful for specifying intervals, may not be preferred by those doing such coding. The may prefer a ± syntax, or something like ΤεΧ’s strech and shrink syntax for glue. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: 1.23 becomes Rat (Re: Synopsis 02: Range objects)

2009-08-28 Thread James Cloos
something compatable with ieee 754 decimal floats, so that they can be used when running on hardware which supports them. Even w/o such hardware, gcc (at least) has support for software emulation of _Decimal32 and _Decimal64 (and _Decimal128?). -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: Synopsis 02: Range objects

2009-08-25 Thread James Cloos
eal axis as .. generates when given real args, and is useful for interval arithmetic. Something for which p6 is well suited. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: Rukudo-Star => Rakudo-lite?

2009-08-10 Thread James Fuller
how about 'raku' then the final version could be called 'rakudone' Jim Fuller

[perl #60312] [BUG] OpenBSD Smolder test failures

2009-07-23 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Tue May 12 05:18:47 2009, jk...@verizon.net wrote: > Here's an update based on a recent Smolder report > Thanks to a steady stream of Smolder reports from 'sm...@pc42.my.domain' -- I don't know who the human there is -- performed on OpenBSD/amd64, we can see that we are passing all non-SKIPped

[perl #47966] [DOCS] pdd23 doesn't list exception;death as a standard exception

2009-07-19 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Sun Jul 19 18:27:29 2009, tene wrote: > Parrot still doesn't have a hierarchy of exception types. > exception;death doesn't exist. This is the same as rt#36261. I > recommend that both of these tickets be merged into a single TT. At Tene's suggestion, I am consolidating this ticket with one

[perl #36261] [TODO] HLL exception handling

2009-07-19 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Sun Jul 19 18:22:00 2009, tene wrote: > This still hasn't been done. I've been thinking about this again > recently, and I'll try to move it higher in my TODO list. I have a lot > of exceptions cleanups that I still need to document and/or do. At Tene's suggestion, I am consolidating this ti

[perl #47966] [DOCS] pdd23 doesn't list exception;death as a standard exception

2009-07-19 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Mon Dec 01 11:39:33 2008, pmichaud wrote: > > ... how exactly does one use C, C, > and the other exception types from PIR? I see them mentioned throughout > pdd23, but I've never actually seen an example of how these constants > (are they constants?) might appear in actual code, whether it's P

[perl #55504] [BUG] Failing test t/op/spawnw.t

2009-07-19 Thread James Keenan via RT
Although I cannot be sure that the issues which were cited in the original post to this RT have been cleared up, I note that there has been no follow-up discussion in eight months. So I'm going to resolve this ticket and encourage any new LANG-related failures to be reported in new tickets in our

[perl #53538] [BUG] Parrot_floatval_time() and Parrot_intval_time() do not match up on Win32

2009-07-19 Thread James Keenan via RT
This ticket has been moved into the Trac system at https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/857. Please continue the discussion there. Thank you very much. kid51

[perl #42699] r18304 Test failures on NexentaOS (GNU/OpenSolaris)

2009-07-19 Thread James Keenan via RT
There's been a lot of water under the bridge since this test failure report was originally filed. So we would undoubtedly need new reports to go forward. I'm going to close this ticket and encourage people with access to NexentaOS (GNU/OpenSolaris) to configure and build Parrot from HEAD and to f

[perl #42901] [RFC] [INSTALL] Solutions for the install target problems

2009-07-19 Thread James Keenan via RT
This ticket addressed a variety of issues why may or may not still be apropos. However, I suspect that the specific approach to install-related problems suggested in the ticket will be superseded by the work done on such issues in the last month. Would it be possible to review this ticket and rec

[perl #43174] [TODO] Figure out why -libpath: needs to be removed from $linkflags and $ldflags (config/inter/progs.pm)

2009-07-19 Thread James Keenan via RT
This ticket has been moved into the Trac system: https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/854. Please continue the discussion there. Thank you very much. kid51

Re: r27605 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-07-19 Thread James Cloos
lwall> + enum TrigBase is export ; Is Circles of much value? I can see Semicircles, since that would make the range (-1,1] or [-1,1). But a range of [0,1) or (0,1] seems *much* less useful. Or am I missing an obvious use case? -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

[perl #37258] [PATCH] loadlib and libraries with '.' in the name

2009-07-18 Thread James Keenan via RT
I have moved this ticket to the Trac system: https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/850. Please continue discussion there. Thank you very much. kid51

[perl #38146] [TODO] OS.pmc - file copy

2009-07-18 Thread James Keenan via RT
The discussion in this ticket appears to have petered out in June 2006. The state of any efforts to work on it is unclear. This RT was mentioned by Whiteknight on his blog on July 17 2009: "Likewise, Ticket #38146 discusses the creation of a file copying utility, although discussion there has s

[perl #43687] [TODO] combine abstract search with other search in lib/Parrot/Docs/File.pm

2009-05-22 Thread James Keenan via RT
No objections heard. Resolving ticket.

[perl #43687] [TODO] combine abstract search with other search in lib/Parrot/Docs/File.pm

2009-05-20 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Sat May 09 19:40:51 2009, jk...@verizon.net wrote: > > In the course of working on RT 43683, I came across the inline comment > which was the pretext for creating this ticket in the first place. It > was not removed when the ticket was rejected. And since I was doing > some refactoring for t

[perl #43709] [TODO] Groups should only contain items or paths

2009-05-20 Thread James Keenan via RT
Rejected, and ticket resolved, in r38997. kid51

[perl #43713] [TODO] Items should only contain paths

2009-05-20 Thread James Keenan via RT
Rejected, and ticket resolved, in r38996. kid51

[perl #41912] [CAGE] survey tools/ dir for unused, old, or broken code, and remove or fix as necessary

2009-05-17 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Sun Mar 22 06:09:15 2009, jk...@verizon.net wrote: > On Mon Mar 19 15:43:27 2007, particle wrote: > > there's a number of scripts and utilities in the tools/ subtree which > > i suspect have gone unused for some time now. this ticket is a > > placeholder to track efforts on surveying and fixing

[perl #60312] [BUG] OpenBSD Smolder test failures

2009-05-12 Thread James Keenan via RT
Here's an update based on a recent Smolder report (http://smolder.plusthree.com/app/public_projects/report_details/21469); veracity.t: passing arithmetics.t: ok 7 - negate -0.0 # TODO -0.0 not implemented, TT #313 : still not passing (Why is this showing up yellow rather than green on the Smolde

[perl #40817] [TODO] track generated files during the configure/make process

2009-05-11 Thread James Keenan via RT
I've been staring at this ticket for more than a year. One of my earlier patches got us part of the way there. Applying Reini's or something like that would get us closer. But the more I look at this problem in light of https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/586, https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ti

[perl #46821] [RFC] should readonly be deep or shallow?

2009-05-10 Thread James Keenan via RT
See also discussion in https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/658.

[perl #43709] [TODO] Groups should only contain items or paths

2009-05-09 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Tue Jul 10 05:04:48 2007, pcoch wrote: > In lib/Parrot/Docs/Group.pm there is the todo item: > > # TODO - Groups should only contain items or paths. > > This restriction needs to be implemented. Why? Can anyone say? I doubt it, if only because I doubt that anyone understands the Parrot

[perl #43713] [TODO] Items should only contain paths

2009-05-09 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Tue Jul 10 05:13:07 2007, pcoch wrote: > In the file lib/Parrot/Docs/Item.pm there is the todo item: > > # TODO - Items should only contain paths > > This restriction needs to be implemented. Why? Can anyone say? I doubt it, if only because I doubt that anyone understands the Parrot::D

[perl #43687] [TODO] combine abstract search with other search in lib/Parrot/Docs/File.pm

2009-05-09 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Fri Apr 17 13:29:57 2009, cotto wrote: > On Fri Apr 17 13:24:13 2009, julianalbo wrote: > > > I propose rejecting this ticket as unnecessary. The code may not be > > > optimal, but it works fine and isn't even particularly hacky or broken. > > > > +1 > > > > > > rejected! In the course of

[perl #43683] [TODO] Remove the pod, or convert to html? (lib/Parrot/Docs/File.pm)

2009-05-09 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Fri Apr 17 13:27:36 2009, cotto wrote: > > make html works fine, as far as I can tell. Is there any reason why > this ticket can't be rejected? No. Deleted those two comments in r38663. Marking ticket rejected. kid51

[perl #59978] [TODO] Add SVN revision number of reports to Smolder front page

2009-05-05 Thread James Keenan via RT
In r38498, applied patch supplied by Michael Peters. See also: https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/SmolderTaskList.

[perl #41893] [BUG] 0.4.9 leaks various .c files into install image, creates PREFIX/config, PREFIX/compiler

2009-05-02 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Sun Mar 18 08:23:45 2007, codermattie wrote: > Hello, > > In the course of testing the parrot-0.4.9 release I discovered a > number of files installed by the "reallyinstall" target that > don't belong in an install image. > > To understand the output Configure.pl was called with: > --prefix=

[perl #52346] [TODO] avoid deprecated functions in config/gen/platform/darwin/dl.c

2009-05-02 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Fri May 01 13:16:13 2009, coke wrote: > > What I meant was, I'll apply this in a few days (sometime this weekend) > UNLESS I hear back from other darwin developers with complaints. I tried the suggested deletion. It caused no problems for me on Darwin/PPC. So +1 on the change. kid51

[perl #41893] [BUG] 0.4.9 leaks various .c files into install image, creates PREFIX/config, PREFIX/compiler

2009-04-28 Thread James Keenan via RT
The 'reallyinstall' target is gone, so we can resolve this ticket.

[perl #53976] [PATCH] Remove tools/dev/ops_renum.mak

2009-04-21 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Tue Apr 21 05:36:53 2009, bacek wrote: > On Sun Aug 24 08:06:29 2008, jk...@verizon.net wrote: > > There is no more tools/dev/ops_renum.mak. Can we close this ticket? > The only reason I did not previously close it was Coke's expression of a desire to pull this into the main Makefile. But I

Re: Logo considerations

2009-03-24 Thread James Fuller
udience: robust, trusted, straightforward, safe, supported colors evoke meaning, shapes/animals, etc do as well ... thats enough from the 'marketing corner' ... back to programming. cheers, Jim Fuller On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Guy Hulbert wrote: > On Tue, 2009-24-03 at 21:

Re: Logo considerations

2009-03-24 Thread James Fuller
creating a logo by committee is probably the worst way to design such things ... perl6 logo will be seen in the context of other more professionally designed logos and like it or not using the basics of modern branding and marketing will result in something that is more recognizable no matter

Re: Logo considerations

2009-03-24 Thread James Fuller
I think if the logo alluded to something revolving around a xmas present would be appropriate. -Jim Fuller

Re: [perl #62974] Signed-zero tests failing on Windows XP

2009-02-03 Thread James E Keenan
a...@ippimail.com wrote: yep, seems like an msvc version thing. iirc there was funny -0 handling in msvc 7. can the OP attach Parrot::Configure::Generated? ~jerry I would, if I could find anything with a name like that, (with or without .pm suffix). What should the complete path be? lib/Pa

[perl #41912] [CAGE] survey tools/ dir for unused, old, or broken code, and remove or fix as necessary

2008-12-29 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Sat Dec 27 20:56:38 2008, rgrjr wrote: > > When updating an old working copy, I just happened to notice that > "parrot-config" was deleted since June. So was able to find this: > > r28977 | chromatic | 2008-07-02 21:42:27 -0400 (Wed, 02 Jul 2008) > | 2 lines > > [parrot-config] Turne

[perl #61044] [BUG] r33477 fails t/compilers/imcc/syn/macro.t on OS X

2008-12-05 Thread James Keenan via RT
Ovid: I'm going to merge this RT into the one we already have open reporting the same failure on Darwin/PPC. I believe the problem occurred in r33324. I think chromatic is looking into this. Thank you for your report. kid51

Re: [perl #60926] [BUG] t/compilers/imcc/syn/macro.t 'unterminated macro 2' fails on Darwin PPC

2008-11-30 Thread James E Keenan
On Nov 29, 2008, at 11:16 PM, chromatic wrote: If you're continuing to bisect to the offending patch, you don't need to update the ticket with ranges is useful. If you can't narrow it down further that's one thing, but if you haven't hit the limit of what you can find, I don't need th

[perl #55386] [TODO] Remove Configure.pl -miniparrot option

2008-11-26 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Wed Nov 26 13:18:57 2008, coke wrote: > > > The only remaining instance in branch that I'm not sure how to resolve > is > > t/configure/034-step.t > > Jim - if you could take a look at that usage of miniparrot and either > bless it or remove it, that'd be very helpful. (I can't tell if i

[perl #60068] [BUG] t/pmc/packfile.t: set_integer_keyed_str test failing on Darwin PPC

2008-11-24 Thread James Keenan via RT
Test continues to pass, so I'm resolving ticket.

[perl #46893] [TODO] [Perl] Complete test coverage of Parrot::Test

2008-11-24 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Thu Oct 25 08:20:10 2007, pcoch wrote: > In t/perl/Parrot_Test.t there are the todo item comments: > > # TODO test write_code_to_file(), plan(), skip(), slurp_file() > > # test the test functions from Parrot::Test > # TODO: test the untested test functions > > This is all (realistically speak

[perl #46891] [TODO] [Perl] Test Parrot::Test::run_command

2008-11-24 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Thu Oct 25 08:18:13 2007, pcoch wrote: > In t/perl/Parrot_Test.t there is the todo item: > > # TODO test run_command() > > Do this please :-) Since RT 46893 calls for testing Parrot::Test in general, I'm going to merge this ticket into that one. kid51

[perl #60622] [BUG] t/pmc/pmc.t failing on Darwin

2008-11-24 Thread James Keenan via RT
Moritz confirmed that a related ticket is passing for him, so I'm stealing this ticket and marking it Resolved. kid51

[perl #41168] [CAGE] graceful "no compiler" error message?

2008-11-24 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Mon Nov 24 13:45:03 2008, coke wrote: > > I'm satisfied that the original request is resolved. There's a lot of > discussion further down in the ticket which I /think/ can be shelved > until whenever config is looked at down the road. > Agreed. I will take the ticket now and close it in

[perl #57492] [CAGE] Explore possible speedups of t/configure/*.t tests

2008-11-23 Thread James Keenan via RT
Done in r33127. Other suggestions?

[perl #57492] [CAGE] Explore possible speedups of t/configure/*.t tests

2008-11-23 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Sun Nov 23 17:48:48 2008, particle wrote: > > > the use_ok tests can all go in one file, so they're only run once. > ~jerry Reviewing them, I think we can probably eliminate them as 'use_ok' tests and simply 'use' the modules. I think I'll do that with all except the config step classes, whic

[perl #46803] [TODO] [Perl] Improve the GC eagerness test in t/stm/basic.t

2008-11-23 Thread James Keenan via RT
Why is this test labelled [Perl] rather than [PIR]?

[perl #46807] [TODO] [Perl] Thread types tests need rework

2008-11-23 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Wed Oct 24 13:06:54 2007, pcoch wrote: > In t/pmc/threads.t there is the todo item: > > # XXX FIXME rework tests since we don't really have thread types? > > I hope this comment is fairly self-explanatory. Well, I, for one, don't know what it means. Also, shouldn't this be classified as a [P

[perl #46865] [TODO] [Perl] Capture STDOUT when running BigNum tests

2008-11-23 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Wed Oct 24 14:56:32 2007, pcoch wrote: > In t/pmc/bignum.t there is the todo item: > > # XXX Capture STDOUT > runtest( $_[0], $_[1], $ops{ $ARGV[2] }, $_[3], $round{ $_[4] }, $_[5] ); > > Which means that the output from stdout needs to be captured (and > supposedly used) when running individu

[perl #49832] [BUG] Storable error during build (0.5.2) in MacosX

2008-11-23 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Wed Jun 18 07:43:59 2008, packy wrote: > Minor note: > > Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0 => OSX 10.3.9 I believe we recently made Storable v2.12 the minimum version for configuration of Parrot. Have you tried configuring recently? Any different results? Thank you very much. kid51

[perl #49912] [BUG] Unable to Configure using Borland C

2008-11-23 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Tue Jan 22 16:14:47 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue Jan 22 14:02:30 2008, ajr wrote: > > > > > Any suggestions for further floundering would be welcome. > > > > Well, here's one thought. You could try running Configure.pl with the > addition of the --configure_trace option. Read th

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