Re: [POC] nci interface using ffcall library

2005-10-31 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Oct 31, 2005, at 7:49, John Lenz wrote: On Fri, October 28, 2005 2:22 pm, Nick Glencross said: Guys, As mentioned on the list yesterday I started evaluating ffcall as a way of providing NCI functionality. http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-ffcall.html I am a SWIG (www.swig.org) dev

[perl #37563] [BUG] Parrot m4 has problems with PGE

2005-10-31 Thread Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT
> [bernhard - So 30. Okt 2005, 04:35:45]: > > Hi, > > it looks like recent PGE changes broke 'Parrot m4'. > I have boiled it down to a 20 line test cast and added it > as test 4 in t/library/pge.t. This test case fails, at least under my > Linux installation, with a segmentation fault. > > My

RE: [POC] nci interface using ffcall library

2005-10-31 Thread Garrett Goebel
Nick Glencross wrote: > > As mentioned on the list yesterday I started evaluating ffcall > as a way of providing NCI functionality. > > http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-ffcall.html > > I actually really like the current NCI implementation, although > it suffers from a large nci.c file and all

Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-10-31 Thread Chris Dolan
In the last year as a Fink maintainer (Mac OS X debian-like package manager), I've come across a couple CPAN modules that have no license information at all. It's very frustrating. I've submitted RT bugs, but one of them has been fixed (thanks Ken Williams). To encourage authors to correc

Re: Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-10-31 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:34:09AM -0600, Chris Dolan wrote: > To encourage authors to correct this oversight, I propose a new pair > of Kwalitee tests. Both would be nice, but if either of them were > implemented, I'd be thrilled. I'd prefer that someone else implement > the test (l

Re: [perl #37563] [BUG] Parrot m4 has problems with PGE

2005-10-31 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT wrote: it looks like recent PGE changes broke 'Parrot m4'. I have boiled it down to a 20 line test cast and added it as test 4 in t/library/pge.t. This test case fails, at least under my Linux installation, with a segmentation fault. It looks like a GC bug, kind o

Re: [POC] nci interface using ffcall library

2005-10-31 Thread Nick Glencross
Garrett Goebel wrote: Nick Glencross wrote: As mentioned on the list yesterday I started evaluating ffcall as a way of providing NCI functionality. http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-ffcall.html I actually really like the current NCI implementation, although it suffers from a large nci.c

win32 can't make realclean

2005-10-31 Thread Will Coleda
Getting the following error on 'nmake realclean', a popup (why on earth can't I cut and paste this error!#$#) with: perl.exe: Application error: The instruction at "0x7c93426d" referenced memory at "0x". The memory could not be "read". Click on "OK". Get a second popup: perl.exe -

Re: [POC] nci interface using ffcall library

2005-10-31 Thread chromatic
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 20:12 +, Nick Glencross wrote: > I certainly agree about what was being said about supporting multiple > backends as it protects us against future nasty platforms. However, I'm > unclear what the benefits of the favoured option of using JIT code was; > that sounds like