RE: [perl #34572] [PATCH] README.win32 instructions for nmake with ICU

2005-03-25 Thread Gay, Jerry
i tried to build parrot on win32 yesterday. i too found the readme out of date. i didn't know how version-dependent parrot was with unicode, so i tracked down the 2.8 version of icu at ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/2.8 with this version installed, 'icudata.lib' is the prop

RE: Events (I think we need a new name)

2004-05-12 Thread Gay, Jerry
Dan Sugalski wrote: > It does, though, sound like we might want an alternate name for this > stuff. While event is the right thing in some places it isn't in others > (like the whole attribute/property mess) we may be well-served choosing > another name. I'm open to suggestions here... > incid

RE: [perl #30500] [PATCH] Yet another Perl Version Issue

2004-06-28 Thread Gay, Jerry
> I attach a patch which uses Sortkey only in Versions of > Data::Dumper supporting Sortkey. In what version was Sortkey > introduced to Data::Dumer? > > bye > boe > > Data::Dumper 2.12 (introducing Sortkeys) was first released on the CPAN in perl-5.7.3. $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys is available in

RE: ICU Outdated - Ideas

2004-07-31 Thread Gay, Jerry
Leopold Toetch wrote: > Both ways - or better three stages: Its optional. If its > there, we *can* link against it. If you want/need it, and > your OS doesn't have it, well, then install it. > and if you don't want it you get... what? no unicode support? a hand-rolled solution? just what is th

RE: Interfaces, briefly

2004-08-17 Thread Gay, Jerry
> since presumably interfaces are a bit more uniquely named than > methods, and an object may be able to do something some class does > while not actually being in that class. > should interface names be registered somewhere? how are collisions handled? i can imagine a scenario where multiple

RE: Benchmark Stuff

2004-08-24 Thread Gay, Jerry
> > Here is the modified parrotbench script along with > > the > > new data collection script and the script to make it > > into a web page. > > > > I don't know what kind of layout/data would be > > useful > > to people so let me know if you want something else. > > > > I will update every Tuesd

RE: Numeric semantics for base pmcs

2004-08-25 Thread Gay, Jerry
Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BigNums grow on demand. It depends on value and precision. > can BigNum then start at sizeof(int)? overflow would auto-grow the BigNum to the appropriate size, and most integer math operations will keep space usage as low as possible. in fact, then i

RE: Rules for method resolution?

2004-02-13 Thread Gay, Jerry
> We also have to have a way to fetch the method PMC for a named method > for later use, which is where the interesting bits come in. > > This is required for a number of reasons, including Python, so we > have to have it. The question is... *When* is the name resolved? That > is, if we do: >

RE: Release doc tasks

2004-02-20 Thread Gay, Jerry
> One thing that would help is if people ran > > perl tools/docs/write_docs.pl -d -s > > on various platforms and told me if it works - or what they runs fine on Windows 2000, with only the warning mentioned by chromatic.

RE: [CVS ci] PLATFORMS

2004-02-24 Thread Gay, Jerry
> Does the following command work? > > $ cvs co '!parrot/platforms' parrot > # the order should be preserved. > > Arvindh > this works for me on win32 --jerry ** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it m

RE: Various newbie questions.

2004-02-24 Thread Gay, Jerry
> 1) Is there any way past this problem? > >cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/public co parrot > ... > ... >U parrot/ops/var.ops >cvs server: Updating parrot/pf >U parrot/pf/pf_items.c >cvs [checkout aborted]: could not chdir to > parrot/platforms: Invalid arg

RE: [perl #27246] [PATCH] Correct ommision inconfig/gen/makefiles /befun ge.in

2004-03-01 Thread Gay, Jerry
if this is accepted, please close [perl #27083], as it addresses this bug, but i haven't yet seen it posted to the list. --jerry > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 2:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [perl #2724

RE: www.parrotcode.org/ points to 0.0.10

2004-03-03 Thread Gay, Jerry
> As promised. > > The "new" site is now live. > > -R thank you! this looks fantastic, and the html docs will be a valuable and welcome addition. --jerry ** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may contain pri

RE: [FYI] mainframe inside the notebook

2004-03-15 Thread Gay, Jerry
> [1] www.conmicro.cx/Hercules/ thanks for the info, although that link is broken. try instead: http://www.conmicro.cx/hercules/ --jerry ** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may contain privileged or confide

RE: How do I....

2004-03-16 Thread Gay, Jerry
On Tuesday, March 16, 2004 7:32 AM, Jens Rieks wrote: > You can also use another namespace: > store_global "TCL::InternalData", "globals", the_hash > ... > find_global the_hash, "TCL::InternalData", "globals" is there a good reason why the signatures are different for 'store_glo

RE: How do I....

2004-03-16 Thread Gay, Jerry
thanks all for the clarifications... > > and they aren't listed in > ops.num yet, > > They are listed in ops.num #1374 - #1385 since quite a time. > this morning i performed a 'cvs co parrot' and ran make (win32 - msvc,) which generated the following information, leading to my statement above:

RE: Safe execution core and ops classification

2004-03-23 Thread Gay, Jerry
> - do we expect to have more then 32 different classes? > i see 13 operator classes currently > A perl script that scans ops-files for opcode classes and spits out: > > a) a pod with opcode classes headings and the list of opcodes that > belong to that class (at best created from a template, w

[PATCH] RE: Safe execution core and ops classification

2004-03-23 Thread Gay, Jerry
> - do we expect to have more then 32 different classes? > i see 13 operator classes currently, though my tree may be out of date > A perl script that scans ops-files for opcode classes and spits out: > > a) a pod with opcode classes headings and the list of opcodes that > belong to that class