RE: Parrot long-term goals/prospects

2002-09-05 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 02:45, Brent Dax wrote: > So, building Parrot ought to look something like this (for a Windows > user): > > c:\parrot> cd build > c:\parrot\build> win32 > Are you using MS VC++? [yn] y > > Miniparrot build complete. > Enter 'miniparrot bu

RE: Parrot long-term goals/prospects

2002-09-05 Thread Brent Dax
Nicholas Clark: # On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 07:03:00AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: # > 4) The *only* tools you will need to build parrot are a C compiler # > environment and either a make tool or a shell # # I believe we may be able to get away without a make tool or a shell. The final build system

Re: Parrot long-term goals/prospects

2002-09-05 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:12:52PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 07:03:00AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > 4) The *only* tools you will need to build parrot are a C compiler > > environment and either a make tool or a shell > > I believe we may be able to get away withou

Re: Parrot long-term goals/prospects

2002-09-05 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 07:03:00AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > 4) The *only* tools you will need to build parrot are a C compiler > environment and either a make tool or a shell I believe we may be able to get away without a make tool or a shell. It won't be pretty, but I see no reason why we

Parrot long-term goals/prospects

2002-09-05 Thread Dan Sugalski
I really hadn't planned on going into this now, but the issue's been raised enough that it can't be left to later. Here's the current set of long-term goals for Parrot: 1) We *will* run Perl 6, Perl 5, Ruby, Python, JVM bytecode, and .NET bytecode. Not necessarily in that order 2) [EMAIL PROT