Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-31 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Sean O'Rourke wrote: > -- languages/perl6 should work equally well with 5.005_03 and 5.6.1. s/should/does/ EOT ;-) > /s leo

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-31 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:23 AM -0700 7/31/02, Sean O'Rourke wrote: >On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >> [Pardon the tardiness--digging through old mail] >> At 3:39 PM -0400 7/22/02, Melvin Smith wrote: >> >At 12:00 PM 7/22/2002 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >> >>On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:21:09AM +0100,

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-31 Thread Sean O'Rourke
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > [Pardon the tardiness--digging through old mail] > At 3:39 PM -0400 7/22/02, Melvin Smith wrote: > >At 12:00 PM 7/22/2002 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > >>On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:21:09AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote: > >>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:1

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-31 Thread Dan Sugalski
[Pardon the tardiness--digging through old mail] At 3:39 PM -0400 7/22/02, Melvin Smith wrote: >At 12:00 PM 7/22/2002 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >>On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:21:09AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: >>> > "Sean O'Rourke"

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-30 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: > "Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say that "If you have > > Perl <= 5.005_03, "$a += 3" may fail to parse." I guess we can upgrade > > that to "if you have < 5.6, you

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-22 Thread Melvin Smith
At 12:00 PM 7/22/2002 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:21:09AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: > > > "Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say t

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:21:09AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: > > "Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say that "If you have > > > Perl <= 5.005_03, "$a += 3" may fail

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-22 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Nicholas Clark wrote: > In October 2000 I believed that 5.005 maintenance *is* important for the > acceptance of perl6, and I still do now: Some minutes ago I sent a first patch to Sean, to make it work on 5.005_03. One reason of failure is shown by the following snippet: $ cat t1 #!/usr/bin/

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-22 Thread Graham Barr
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: > "Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say that "If you have > > Perl <= 5.005_03, "$a += 3" may fail to parse." I guess we can upgrade > > that to "if you have < 5.6, you

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-22 Thread Sam Vilain
"Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say that "If you have > Perl <= 5.005_03, "$a += 3" may fail to parse." I guess we can upgrade > that to "if you have < 5.6, you lose". I notice that DBI no longer supports Perl releases <5.6. See

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-19 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jeff wrote: > Partial perl6 compiler What should be the prerequisits for languages/perl6? README and languages/perl6/README imply that it should work with perl 5.005, but it obviously doesn't. (I tried to patch P6C and got it to compile, but the generated Perl6grammar doesn't work). With 5.6

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-17 Thread Jeff
Jeff wrote: > > As the message says. Code freeze tonight at midnight EDT (GMT-0400). > I'll be tagging with PRE_REL_0.0.7 then. Code slush at 2200, code freeze at 0030. Tag was actually named PRE_REL_007. > Features to be included: > > Perl 6 grammar > Partial perl6 compiler > Pure-perl assemb

[PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-17 Thread Jeff
As the message says. Code freeze tonight at midnight EDT (GMT-0400). I'll be tagging with PRE_REL_0.0.7 then. Features to be included: Perl 6 grammar Partial perl6 compiler Pure-perl assembler Heavily patched and upgraded intermediate language Massive patching in general, cleaned-up PMCs. FORTH