more pdd21 questions

2006-03-08 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Hi @chip, 1) Namespace Opcodes add_namespace $P0, $P1 The opcode signature looks a bit strange to me, especially when compared to the 'add_namespace' method. Is the namespace name implied? And there is of course again the question where to add the namespace: relative to HLL or

unused & unimplemented opcodes

2006-03-08 Thread Leopold Toetsch
There are some opcodes in core.ops which don't do anything: I'd do: setline ... delete, doesn't make sense getline ... move to debug.ops, implement it setfile ... delete getfile ... mpve to debug.ops, implement it setpackagedelete getpackagedelete - use get_namespace

Re: unused & unimplemented opcodes

2006-03-08 Thread Steve Peters
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:16:37PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > There are some opcodes in core.ops which don't do anything: > > I'd do: > > setline ... delete, doesn't make sense > getline ... move to debug.ops, implement it > setfile ... delete > getfile ... mpve to debug.ops,

Re: Backwards (?) kwalitee definition on qa.perl.org

2006-03-08 Thread Mark Stosberg
On 2005-07-09, Nik Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://qa.perl.org/phalanx/kwalitee.html says: > > What is kwalitee? > > Kwalitee is inexact quality. We don't know exactly what it is, > but we know it when we see it. > > Isn't that backwards? I thought 'kwalitee' was suppos

Re: Backwards (?) kwalitee definition on qa.perl.org

2006-03-08 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 13:15, Mark Stosberg wrote: > Kwalitee are precise metrics which strive to approximate quality. The > name is intentionally different to convey that Kwalitee is related to > "quality", but not quite the real thing. That's because we don't know > exactly what quality

Re: unused & unimplemented opcodes

2006-03-08 Thread Jonathan Worthington
"Leopold Toetsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are some opcodes in core.ops which don't do anything: I'd do: setline ... delete, doesn't make sense getline ... move to debug.ops, implement it setfile ... delete getfile ... mpve to debug.ops, implement it Where getline and ge

Re: Integer types (was Re: early draft of I/O PDD)

2006-03-08 Thread Jonathan Worthington
"Leopold Toetsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yup, and I really, really don't like the idea of making our bytecode format non-portable. Part of the point of having a VM is portability, right? The described mapping doesn't have any PBC portability issues AFAIK. If 'L' is mapping to 'I' or not

Re: Parrot 0.4.2 "GPW" Released!

2006-03-08 Thread James Cloos
I tried upgrading my gentoo box from parrot 0.4.0 to 0.4.2 by copying the ebuild for 0.4.0 to 0.4.2 and emerging that. It failed in the make install phase when it tried to install the installable_ files to the live filesystem rather than to the install target tree. The ebuild calls make install w

Re: Integer types (was Re: early draft of I/O PDD)

2006-03-08 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Mar 8, 2006, at 22:55, Jonathan Worthington wrote: The described mapping doesn't have any PBC portability issues AFAIK. If 'L' is mapping to 'I' or not is chosen at runtime. Wouldn't the required re-writing blow away the wins we get through mmap'ing in bytecode files? There isn't any re

Re: best way to migrate to Test::WWW::Selenium ?

2006-03-08 Thread Luke Closs
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:50:17PM +, Mark Stosberg wrote: > I've got a test suite built with Selenium, but I would like to the > output in TAP to centralize the reporting, perhaps using Smolder once I > Smolder installed. Great idea. I just looked at Smolder and it seems awesome. I'm excit