Re: [CONFIGURE] New make.pl coming soon...

2002-04-26 Thread Jeff
Garrett Goebel wrote: > > From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > I'm going to try to have the assembler done over the weekend, > > with at the least hooks for a macro system so that people can > > work on pieces of that. > > Are you working with Simon Cozens' unchecked-in assembler? Or >

RE: [CONFIGURE] New make.pl coming soon...

2002-04-26 Thread Garrett Goebel
From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I'm going to try to have the assembler done over the weekend, > with at the least hooks for a macro system so that people can > work on pieces of that. Are you working with Simon Cozens' unchecked-in assembler? Or yet-another-assembler? My understanding

Re: [CONFIGURE] New make.pl coming soon...

2002-04-25 Thread Jeff
Steve Fink wrote: > > I'm not worried about your new make system being a bad idea. I do > wonder if it's a wheel that's been invented before, but that's not my > real concern. My real concern is that it sounds like this is slowing > the introduction of the new assembler, and *that* is blocking mu

Re: [CONFIGURE] New make.pl coming soon...

2002-04-25 Thread Steve Fink
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:04:14PM -0700, Robert Spier wrote: > >Without knowing too much about it, I still have to wonder what is > >wrong with cons? I thought it was a fully functional all-perl make > >replacement. > > One reason not to use cons is that we will have to port it to > parrot/perl6

Re: [CONFIGURE] New make.pl coming soon...

2002-04-24 Thread Damien Neil
On Wednesday, April 24, 2002, at 04:04 PM, Robert Spier wrote: > One of the keys of the system Jeff has implemented is that it's 100% > real perl code and real perl objects, not a language parsed with > perl. This means you can do nifty things and write perl code to > modify things in a natural w

Re: [CONFIGURE] New make.pl coming soon...

2002-04-24 Thread Robert Spier
>Without knowing too much about it, I still have to wonder what is >wrong with cons? I thought it was a fully functional all-perl make >replacement. One reason not to use cons is that we will have to port it to parrot/perl6 in order to become self hosting, another, is that it may not meet all of

Re: [CONFIGURE] New make.pl coming soon...

2002-04-24 Thread Steve Fink
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:10:55AM -0400, Jeff wrote: > In between attempting to get the new assembler up and running (currently > dealing with XS issues), Robert Spiers and I have come up with a new > make mechanism. XS? Is this a different assembler than Simon Cozen's? I assume so, since I've h