Re: [perl #38146] [TODO] OS.pmc - file copy

2006-01-11 Thread Chip Salzenberg
An aside: I suspect that OS.pmc is going to grow beyond maintainability (and fast loading) in the manner of Perl's POSIX module. But for now, it's absolutely great that we're collecting each portability hack into a single implementation. On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 01:04:29PM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wr

Re: [perl #38201] Integer pmc doesn't make store an int

2006-01-11 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Joshua Isom (via RT) wrote: Given the code .sub main :main $N0 = 3.14 $P0 = new .Integer $P0 = $N0 print $P0 print "\n" .end this will print 3.14, not 3. The same occurs if using an S register instead of an N register. This is with the latest revision. Yep. That's

Re: How to best have statements execute only during dev/testing?

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Savige
--- "A. Pagaltzis" wrote: > Additive filters that the same code can run without are > sane when used carefully, and they're easy to create if the > trigger is a special comment or better yet POD section: Damian's Smart::Comments module filters specially formatted comments and can do assertions and

[perl #38123] [TODO] build - change genfile() interpolation syntax

2006-01-11 Thread Joshua Hoblitt via RT
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sun Jan 01 18:44:33 2006]: > > Parrot::Configure::Step::genfile() currently interpolates values in the > format ${foo}. This is undesirable because ${ BAREWORD } is valid perl5 > syntax and in make files it looks uncomfortable similar to $(foo). It > should be changed to @f

[perl #38189] [TODO] sort out CPAN modules incorrectly owned by Parrot

2006-01-11 Thread Joshua Hoblitt via RT
Please reopen this bug if we're still screwing up the CPAN indexer after the next release. Thanks for bringing up this issue. Cheers, -J --

Re: How to best have statements execute only during dev/testing?

2006-01-11 Thread Matisse Enzer
On Jan 10, 2006, at 8:36 AM, dakkar wrote: This entry in BooK's use.perl journal might help you: http://use.perl.org/~BooK/journal/25445 Thanks - that is a helpful idea. --- Matisse Enzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.matisse.net/ - htt

Re: How to best have statements execute only during dev/testing?

2006-01-11 Thread Matisse Enzer
On Jan 11, 2006, at 4:15 AM, Andrew Savige wrote: Damian's Smart::Comments module filters specially formatted comments and can do assertions and quite a lot more. I especially like the idea of filtered comments - rather elegant solution. Also, we've given some thought to the issue of whet

Re: [perl #38146] [TODO] OS.pmc - file copy

2006-01-11 Thread Joshua Juran
On Jan 10, 2006, at 10:29 PM, Chip Salzenberg wrote: On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 01:04:29PM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: ... More sophisticated behavior, like metadata replication, should be left to another method (perhaps syscopy()) that has platform specific behavior(s). My first thought was

how to detect that we're running under CPAN::Testers?

2006-01-11 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Hello, Is there any way to tell if my package is being tested automatically under CPAN::Testers? Here's the situation: I have a DBI extension (DBIx::Transaction) whose unit tests currently depend on a valid DSN being available. SQLite makes a good testbed for "mock" databases, so

Re: [perl #38146] [TODO] OS.pmc - file copy

2006-01-11 Thread Chip Salzenberg
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:16:55PM -0500, Joshua Juran wrote: > Since before System 7 (approaching two decades ago), Mac OS has had a > system call that exchanges the contents of two files. The purpose of > this call is to implement a 'safe save' strategy ... Is this still a system call in Mac

Re: [perl #38146] [TODO] OS.pmc - file copy

2006-01-11 Thread Joshua Juran
On Jan 11, 2006, at 7:02 PM, Chip Salzenberg wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:16:55PM -0500, Joshua Juran wrote: Since before System 7 (approaching two decades ago), Mac OS has had a system call that exchanges the contents of two files. The purpose of this call is to implement a 'safe save' s

Re: how to detect that we're running under CPAN::Testers?

2006-01-11 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any way to tell if my package is being tested automatically > under CPAN::Testers? For CPAN smokers based on CPAN::YACSmoke, the answer is: test the presence of the AUTOMATED_TESTING environment variable. See also the following page for more deta

Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-02 though 2006-01-09

2006-01-11 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-02 though 2006-01-09 All~ Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary. On a complete tangent, if you are playing World of Warcraft and see a troll hunter named Krynna, she rocks. She royally saved me. Be nice to her. Perl 6 Compiler PIL Containers and Roles

Re: how to detect that we're running under CPAN::Testers?

2006-01-11 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For CPAN smokers based on CPAN::YACSmoke, the answer is: test the > presence of the AUTOMATED_TESTING environment variable. See also > the following page for more details: > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-YACSmoke/lib/CPAN/YACSmoke/FAQ.

Re: how to detect that we're running under CPAN::Testers?

2006-01-11 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For CPAN smokers based on CPAN::YACSmoke, the answer is: test the > > presence of the AUTOMATED_TESTING environment variable. See also > > the following page for more details: > > > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/C

t/library/getopt_obj.t fails on amd64/linux

2006-01-11 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
$ perl t/harness t/library/getopt_obj.t t/library/getopt_objNOK 13 # Failed test (t/library/getopt_obj.t at line 559) # got: '"argv" => ResizablePMCArray (size:7) [ # "--ignored", # "-i", # "--ignored=hello", # "argv", # "stay", # "-", # "with me" # ] #

[perl #38208] Can't Escape Single Quotes in Strings

2006-01-11 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Matt Diephouse # Please include the string: [perl #38208] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38208 > Backslashes don't escape single quotes in strings: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/parrot$ ca

[perl #38209] t/library/getopt_obj.t fails on amd64/linux

2006-01-11 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Joshua Hoblitt # Please include the string: [perl #38209] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38209 > - Forwarded message from Joshua Hoblitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Joshua H

[perl #38212] [TODO] improve smoke server layout

2006-01-11 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Joshua Hoblitt # Please include the string: [perl #38212] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38212 > The layout currently looks something like this: -- repository snapshot / computed go

Re: Lua2PIR translator

2006-01-11 Thread François PERRAD
At 17:39 10/01/2006 +0100, Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: Hi, As you know, I've been playing with Lua for some time now, and my attempt to write a Lua compiler targetting Parrot has not been completely unsuccessful, but it was quite some work. Anyway, at some point I realized that PIR looks very much