Re: Bundles

2004-09-08 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:39:49PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: : You've got things a bit turned around I think. Parrot's the engine. : It provides the services, runs the code, handles the environment, and : generally manages stuff. If you want, think of it as a combination : CPU, OS, low-level de

Re: Bundles

2004-09-07 Thread John Siracusa
On 9/7/04 6:31 PM, Gregory Keeney wrote: > Dan Sugalski wrote: >> Though it really ought to be on perl6-internals, since it's not really >> a perl thing at all, rather a parrot thing. I don't think I've the >> cycles to think about it for a while, though. > > Sounds like I need to dig through th

Re: Bundles

2004-09-07 Thread Gregory Keeney
Dan Sugalski wrote: You've got things a bit turned around I think. Parrot's the engine. It provides the services, runs the code, handles the environment, and generally manages stuff. If you want, think of it as a combination CPU, OS, low-level debugging tools, and standard system libraries that

Re: Bundles

2004-09-07 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 3:31 PM -0700 9/7/04, Gregory Keeney wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: Though it really ought to be on perl6-internals, since it's not really a perl thing at all, rather a parrot thing. I don't think I've the cycles to think about it for a while, though. Sounds like I need to dig through the mail ar

Re: Bundles

2004-09-07 Thread Gregory Keeney
Dan Sugalski wrote: Though it really ought to be on perl6-internals, since it's not really a perl thing at all, rather a parrot thing. I don't think I've the cycles to think about it for a while, though. Sounds like I need to dig through the mail archives, RFC's, etc. and try to come up with a

Re: Bundles

2004-09-07 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 2:48 PM -0700 9/7/04, Gregory Keeney wrote: Nicholas Clark wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:07:24PM +0200, James Mastros wrote: 4. The single-file, platform dependent, machine language executable (realexe). This is a plain old executable, that does not particularly indicate it was generated

Re: Bundles

2004-09-07 Thread Gregory Keeney
Nicholas Clark wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:07:24PM +0200, James Mastros wrote: 4. The single-file, platform dependent, machine language executable (realexe). This is a plain old executable, that does not particularly indicate it was generated by a "scripting" language. It requires no o

Re: Bundles

2004-09-07 Thread Gregory Keeney
From perl6-language (Matt Diephouse essentially suggested that this issue be brought here). Smylers wrote: John Siracusa writes: To bring it home, I think packaging and distribution is important enough to warrant a standard, core-supported implementation. Yes, it's great to be able to roll yo