Re: Configure System (was Re: [TODO] --nomanicheck fibs)

2005-10-30 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 09:13:31PM -, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > One would certainly hope so. :-) I guess this approach can work if the > code produced by the Perl 5 compiler only contains the subset of Parrot > functionality that MiniParrot can handle. The constraint can be pushed high

Re: Configure System (was Re: [TODO] --nomanicheck fibs)

2005-10-30 Thread Jonathan Worthington
"Joshua Hoblitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:49:33PM +0100, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > If people have free time to spend on configure stuff, might it not be > better spent working on the real configure system that we want to have > (e.g. a set of makefiles for each pl

Re: Configure System (was Re: [TODO] --nomanicheck fibs)

2005-10-25 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:49:33PM +0100, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > If people have free time to spend on configure stuff, might it not be > better spent working on the real configure system that we want to have > (e.g. a set of makefiles for each platform to build miniparrot, then > configur

Re: Configure System (was Re: [TODO] --nomanicheck fibs)

2005-10-25 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:19:50PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:16:27PM -0700, jerry gay wrote: > > > i've started developing a plugin architecture for $work, so i've been > > thinking about plugin engines lately. if you're up for working on a > > redesign, i'll gladly

Re: Configure System (was Re: [TODO] --nomanicheck fibs)

2005-10-25 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Oct 26, 2005, at 0:49, Jonathan Worthington wrote: If people have free time to spend on configure stuff, might it not be better spent working on the real configure system that we want to have (e.g. a set of makefiles for each platform to build miniparrot, then configure is a Parrot program

Re: Configure System (was Re: [TODO] --nomanicheck fibs)

2005-10-25 Thread Jonathan Worthington
"chromatic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 17:27 -0700, Will Coleda wrote: Minor nit: when running Configure.pl with --nomanicheck, Configure should report the MANIFEST check as "skipped", not "done". particle beat me to this one, but *wow* the plugin system for configuratio

Re: Configure System (was Re: [TODO] --nomanicheck fibs)

2005-10-25 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:16:27PM -0700, jerry gay wrote: > i've started developing a plugin architecture for $work, so i've been > thinking about plugin engines lately. if you're up for working on a > redesign, i'll gladly pitch in. even if you're looking only to clean > it up, i'd certainly app

Re: Configure System (was Re: [TODO] --nomanicheck fibs)

2005-10-25 Thread jerry gay
On 10/25/05, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 17:27 -0700, Will Coleda wrote: > > > Minor nit: when running Configure.pl with --nomanicheck, Configure > > should report the MANIFEST check as "skipped", not "done". > > particle beat me to this one, but *wow* the plugin sy

Re: Configure System (was Re: [TODO] --nomanicheck fibs)

2005-10-25 Thread Matt Diephouse
chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 17:27 -0700, Will Coleda wrote: > > > Minor nit: when running Configure.pl with --nomanicheck, Configure > > should report the MANIFEST check as "skipped", not "done". > > particle beat me to this one, but *wow* the plugin system for > co