Hello everyone,
A few weeks ago, probably more than I want to admit (but here! See! My
Notes! I've been up to something!), there was one of those, "OMG! Perl
is going to DIE!" threads, somewhere and the, "Well, do something
about it" call came out, and I sort o
On Jan 18, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Richard Dice wrote:
Thank you for pointing this out
And thanks for reminding me about that, too. It was in my notes, but I
forgot to mention it. I *was* wondering what the circumstance was with
the Perl-related trademarks the O'Reilly has. But if
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2005-11-13
Welcome to another fortnight's worth of summary. We'll get back to a
weekly schedule one of these fine days, you see if we don't.
This fortnight in perl6-compiler
There was a surprisingly large amount of activity o
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-11-27
Another week passes. Another summary is written. Another sentence
remains steadfastly in the passive voice.
This week in perl6-compiler
Perl 5 tests for PGE::P5Regexp
Jerry Gay announced that he'd checked in a subset of perl 5.
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-12-04
I heard a rumour on the London.pm mailing list week. Apparently the Perl
6 Summaries are no longer being published. As I'm sure you can imagine,
it came as something of a surprise to me.
This week has been all about Parrot,
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2005-12-18
Welcome to another Perl 6 summary. This has been a week of shootouts,
cleanups, relationships and cunning translations. Read on for the
details (or, this being a summary, pointers to the details).
This week in perl6-compiler
2
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2006-01-01
Another year, another summary. You might think I'm going to summarize
the events of the whole year, but it turns out that chromatic's already
done it. So in the spirit of laziness, I'll just point you at his year
Unless Matt takes pity on me, and writes a summary at disgustingly
high speed, there won't be a summary this week. Assorted things got in
the way on Monday or Tuesday, and I'm now at my consulting gig 'til
the end of the week with no time for summarizing.
I'm really, really sorry.
--
Piers Cawley
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2006-02-12
Welcome to part one of this week's summary. Owning to chronic problems
with deadlines I've only got time to summarize perl6-compiler and
perl6-internals tonight; I'll do perl6-language when I get back from
$paying_
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2006-02-12
Did I say Thursday night? What was I thinking? Blame Nikon for finally
delivering my D200; or just blame me for being a lazy git who spent
Thursday night recovering from the drive home from Liverpool and Friday
playing with a new
"Matt Fowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In the hopes of inspiring someone to take my place, I would like to
> encourage any interested party to just start summarizing and thus
> become the official perl 6 summarizer.
Strongly seconded!
> NB - I do not assume to
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-05-24
Note to self: It's generally not a good idea to go installing Tiger on
the day you return from holiday. It's especially not a good idea to fail
to check that it didn't completely and utterly radish your Postfix
con
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2005-06-07
Crumbs. I've remembered to write the summary this week. Now if I can
just remember to bill O'Reilly for, err, 2003's summaries. Heck, it's
not like waiting for the dollar to get stronger has paid off.
Ah well
The Perl 6 summary for the fortnight ending 2005-06-21
Surprise! It's me again. You may be wondering what happened to last
week's summary (I know I was) and where Matt had gone. Well, I'm not
entirely sure where exactly he is now, but last week was moving week for
The Perl 6 summary for the fortnight ending 2005-06-21
Surprise! It's me again. You may be wondering what happened to last
week's summary (I know I was) and where Matt had gone. Well, I'm not
entirely sure where exactly he is now, but last week was moving week for
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2005-07-05
My, doesn't time fly? Another fortnight gone and another summary to
write. It's a hard life I tell you!
This week in perl6-compiler
Where's everyone gone?
It seems that most of the Perl 6 compiler development is
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-07-19
Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary, brought to you by the words
'displacement' and 'activity'. So far today I've caught up with
everything unread in NetNewsWire, my Flickr groups, every other mailing
l
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-08-02
In case you were wondering, Darwin ports didn't work it's magic and I
still don't have a working Haskell compiler. Thank Juerd for feather,
even if I did have to turn my laptop upside down to read the MOTD.
Rot-1
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20050814
As you will note from the date in the title, it's been a short week.
We're switching back to a midnight Sunday/Monday rollover in order to
make life easier for the perl.com types. So, if I can avoid being
distracted too m
The Perl 6 Summary from 2005-08-24 to 2005-09-11
It's been a while hasn't it?
We'll start as usual with perl6-compiler
This week in perl6-compiler
Changed "??::" to "??!!" in Pugs
Following discussion of the ternary operator in perl6-language, Ben
I thought we'd switched to a Monday deadline for the summary and a Sunday night
roll over. I just noticed your last summary ended on a Monday night.
--
Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.bofh.org.uk/
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-09-25
Hello all. It's another Monday afternoon, which means I'm writing
another summary. There's no cricket to distract me this week, so I'm
letting iTunes Party Shuffle attempt to distract me instead.
This week in perl6
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-10-09
Hello, and welcome to the first Perl 6 Summary to be published on my
website rather than its former home at <http://www.perl.com/>
This week in perl6-compiler
PGE error on failing subrules
Allison broke the resounding silence
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-10-30
Hmm... Thursday afternoon and I've only just started writing the
summary... What happened to professionalism? What happened to rigid,
albeit self-imposed deadlines?
Um... I've had a cold. The cats ate my homework.
Th
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-04-12
Whoa! Deja vu! Where'd Matt go?
Don't worry, Matt's still writing summaries. As you may have noticed,
Matt's been writing summaries every two weeks. And now so am I. Because
we love you, we've decided to
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-04-26
It's my turn again. What fun.
"What," I hear you all ask, "has been going on in the crazy mixed up
world of Perl 6 design and development"? Read this summary and,
beginning with perl6-compiler, I shall tell
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-04-04
Wednesday? Why did I leave it 'til Wednesday to write the summary? I
must have *some* reason. Or maybe not. I'll give fair warning that I
won't be doing a summary for next week though, what with Easter and
everything,
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2004-04-18
The only problem with summarizing two week's worth of Perl 6 happenings
is that there's twice as much stuff to summarize. Still, there's no way
I could have made the time to write a summary last week so I'll tak
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-05-09
Ooh look. Stuff's been happening in perl6-internals again. Will wonders
never cease?
Building NCI by default
Bernhard Schmalhofer posted a patch to turn on building libnci.so by
default so that the tests in t/pmc/nci.t
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-04-25
And we're back on a weekly schedule again (unless the Mayday bank
holiday knocks me for six next week). As I expected, the Apocalypse has
brought out a rash of prophets and prognosticators in perl6-language,
but perl6-interna
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-05-02
So, May Day didn't quite knock me for six this year (but being up at 4am
on Newcastle Town Moor on Saturday morning to welcome in the summer with
a bunch of rapper dancers (and no, rapper does not involve large shouty
men we
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2004-05-23
Yes. I know. This week's summary is a week late. So it's a summary of
the last two weeks. So let's get straight to perl6-internals shall we?
Working on the Perl 6 Compiler
Abhijit A. Mahabal posted his first ev
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2004-06-06
Whee! There's a new graphics card in the G5, which means I can type this
at the big screen again, which makes me happy. Well, it would make me
far happier if the new card didn't leave horrible artifacts all over the
s
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 20040621
Good evening. You find me typing away in a motel room on the edge of the
Lake District on the shortest night of the year. I suppose, by rites, I
should be spending the night by some stone circle drinking, dancing and
generally
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-06-27
What's this? No! It can't be! It's a *weekly* Perl 6 Summary. What is
the world coming to?
Sorry, I can't answer that one, so I'll tell you what's been happening
this week in perl6-internals.
Big
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-06-27
What's this? No! It can't be! It's a *weekly* Perl 6 Summary. What is
the world coming to?
Sorry, I can't answer that one, so I'll tell you what's been happening
this week in perl6-internals.
Big
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-07-04
Another week, another Perl 6 Summary. This is becoming a habit.
Let's do perl6-internals first shall we?
Japhy's Perl 6 rules parser
Last week Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan announced that he'd be working on a Per
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-07-10
Another week down, another summer summary. On a Monday no less. Last
week I even managed to get the summary to the mailing lists before the
Perl 5 Porters summary. I may have been even more surprised that Rafael
by that. Let'
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-07-18
Following last week's bizarrely dated summary (I misplaced a day) we're
back with the correct week ending date, but I'm ashamed to admit that
I've slipped to writing on a Tuesday again. My head hangs in shame and
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-07-25
Monday morning, all's well, and Piers sits down at his desk to bash out
another in his ongoing series of Perl 6 Summaries.
I've just realised that I missed noting the second anniversary of my
writing these summaries. It
The Perl 6 Summary for the six days ending 2004-07-31
As I threatened last week, I'm moving the rollover point for these
summaries from midnight on Sunday/Monday to midnight on Friday/Saturday,
but rather than do it in one swell foop I'm doing a couple of six day
weeks.
The Perl 6 Summary for the six days ending 2004-08-06
Another short week and the rollover point is now set to Friday nights in
preparation for September when I'll almost certainly not have weeknights
free. (Of course, I don't expect the summary will be coming out any
earl
You may have noticed that the mailing lists weren't working for a large
chunk of last week. So I'm taking a break in summarizing this
week. I'll catch up next week.
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2004-08-20
Harrumph. Note to self; never miss a week when you could actually have
written the summary. I lulled myself into a false sense of security with
the quiet week for the last summary. The last two weeks have been rather
more busy
NB: The links are probably broken at present. Normal service will
hopefully be resumed once Google gets caught up with the perl6 lists.
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-08-27
Where does the time go? I blame folk festivals. Once I'm getting busy
with the teacher trainin
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-03
Another week, a free weekend, and still I haven't started writing the
summary until Monday. Still, I don't actually start at college 'til next
week, so that's all right then.
We start with perl6-internals.
Co
This week on perl6-compiler
Yes you read that right; development of the Perl 6 compiler now has its
own mailing list. Hopefully, in the coming weeks, the current
perl6-internals list will get renamed parrot-internals to reflect that
split.
As I write this, groups.google.com
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-17
Another week, another summary, and I'm running late. So:
This week in perl6-compiler
The current state of the compiler
Discussion of the current state of the nascent perl 6 compiler and how
best to contribute to its development
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-24
So, this is my last summary before I start my teaching practice.
Hopefully I've got things set up so writing the summary isn't going to
interfere with that, and vice versa.
This week in perl6-compiler
State of Rules
Dis
I tried, I really did, but I'm afraid that I must raise the white flag
to my teacher training for the next while and give up writing the Perl 6
Summary until at least after Christmas.
I've had a great time doing this for the last two and a half years, I
hope you've all enjoyed it
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20031114
Evening all. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.
Undoubtedly, over the last week, some or all of the following happened:
* Dan Sugalski thought about design, and maybe even nailed a few more
things down.
*
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 20031123
Right, hopefully things are back to normal(ish) after the disk crashes
that rather spoilt the last summary. I've managed to fill in my mail
archive too so this summary will cover the events of the last fortnight
(that's
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 20031130
Welcome back to the weekly Perl 6 Summary, which I'm hoping to keep on a
weekly cycle for the foreseeable future.
It's been a relatively low volume week this week, I'm assuming that
Thanksgiving had something to do
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 20031207
Another week, another late summary. Luckily it's been a quiet week so I
should get this written faster than usual. As is traditional, we start
with perl6-internals
Parrot build system tinkering
Andy Dougherty and other disc
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20031214
It looks like things are starting to slow down slightly as we run up to
Christmas, but the quality of discussion remains high. We'll start with
the usual trawl through perl6-internals.
Testing for null
Dan ruled on last w
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20031221
Welcome one and all to the penultimate Perl 6 Summary for 2003. The
nights are long, the air is cold, freezing fog made the journey home
from watching *The Return of the King* a deeply fraught experience
(though probably not as
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20031228
It's the last Perl 6 Summary of 2003 already. Where did the year go?
A large part of my year went down the plughole in the great double disk
disaster which saw about 3 years of mail, a few gigabytes of photos and
my entire su
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040104
What a surprise, a scant week after the last Perl 6 Summary of 2003,
it's the first Perl 6 Summary of 2004. Will wonders never cease? Without
further ado, we'll start with perl6-internals as usual.
Garbage Collection Tas
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040111
It's Monday. People have been talking about Perl 6, Parrot and the
European Union Constitution. Let's find out what they've been saying
about Parrot first shall we?
Threads
Threads were discussed some more. Dan'
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040118
I hope you'll forgive the lack of banter before we start in on
perl6-internals.
Threads. Again.
Still more proposals about threads this week. Jeff Clites offered some
notes based on the Java Virtual Machine's threa
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040125
Welcome to the first summary from my new home in Gateshead. The same old
wibble, with a different view from its window and fewer trips to London.
Right, time to see what's been going on in perl6-internals this week.
Global labe
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040201
Welcome once again to Gateshead, where the skies are grey, the view is
uninspiring, and the workmen across the road seem determined to fall off
the ladder before they get the double glazing fitted.
But enough of the gay Gateshead
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040208
Another Monday evening. Another day of displacement activity out of the
way. There's a huge lump of belly pork braising slowly in a mixture of
stock, rice wine & soy sauce, and nothing on the telly. It must be time
to write t
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040215
In his talk on Parrot at OSCON last year, Dan said that Parrot would
have objects 'by the end of the week'. It's been a very long week, and
it's not finished yet.
Right, venting over, time for the summary. I
I'm afraid that this week's summary won't be posted until at least
Wednesday. Sorry.
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040222
Welcome to the latest belated Perl 6 Summary. I'm running late, so we'll
just dive straight into perl6-internals
Loading bytecode at runtime
Last week Dan had specced out the rules for runtime loading of bytecode.
This
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040229
Welcome to the leapday summary. We'll crack straight on with
perl6-internals
Running up to release time
As Leapday had been chosen as the release date for Parrot 0.1.0, the
week was mostly spent getting things ready for relea
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-03-07
Time marches on, and another summary gets written, sure as eggs are eggs
and chromatic is a chap with whom I will never start a sentence. We
start, as always, with perl6-internals.
Platform games
Work continued this week on
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-03-14
Another week, another summary. It's been a pretty active week so, with a
cunningly mixed metaphor, we'll dive straight into the hive of activity
that is perl6-internals.
Benchmarking
Discussion and development of
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-03-28
... and we're back! Another interesting week in Perl 6. Your Summarizer
even wrote some [parrot] code and it's been simply ages since he did
that. In accordance with ancient custom, we'll start the summary with
I agree with you but an alternative you didn't mention is to start off
your die handler with:
die @_ if $^S;
Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Okay, folks, our base ICU as we ship with parrot just flat-out
> doesn't seem to work with cygwin
I figured I would add my lessons learned here so that people don't have to
start from scratch.
ICU's static only implementation (Win32) has not been completed and likely
will
Ron Blaschke wrote:
> Did just that some time ago, but with version 2.8. It's as simple as
In case anyone was wondering - this doesn't work on Cygwin. It was among
the many things I have tried. It links but then coredumps when ./parrot
config_lib.pasm is executed. Oh, and using the latest deve
I am not sure if this message will make it to the list as I am posting it
using the www.perldiscuss.com interface. Cygwin has been failing to build
since at least the 21st. I suspect it has been since ICU went in. I
checked the tinderbox report but it is not listed.
FWIW - PLATFORMS is also inc
sable-layout --disable-tests
--disable-samples --quiet '--prefix=$cwd/blib' --enable-static
--disable-extras '--oldincludedir=$cwd/blib/old'
--with-data-packaging=archive";
B. modify config/init/hints/cygwin.pl
link => 'c++',
C. perl
uicker and a wider variety of responses.
> PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists wrote:
> >Ok, after much gnashing of teeth, I have made *some* progress:
> >1. Start as clean as possible
> > A. cd /parrot
> > B. make realclean
> > C. c
Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes wrote:
> I know head can not compile at all, but maybe this can help to know that
> the following tests fail on my Slackware Linux:
> t/pmc/signalNOK 2# Failed test (t/pmc/signal.t at line 44)
> t/pmc/signalNOK 4# Failed test (t/pmc/s
I need to embed Perl function in C program running as a daemon on Linux
and Solaris. What it needs is to do pattern matching in Perl while it is
difficult in C. However, frequently calling either of functions eval_pv or
perl_run would keep increasing the size of process. How come these
functions
When the official release of Perl 6 is released and I start to write some
Perl 6 programs using Perl 5 modules, will I get any errors? How will this
be handled? Will all of the Perl 5 modules have to be ported over and
converted to Perl 6 code? Can I have a basic perl6.pl file while using the
Hi,
This is with regard to deploying Perl on Windows CE.
My hardware setup consists of an Intel Celeron Processor, an i830M4
chipset Intel motherboard and I am running WindowsCE .Net 4.2 here. The
board is targeted at Notebook devices. This is acting as my Windows CE
device while I am using a
Hi,
This is with regard to deploying Perl on Windows CE.
My hardware setup consists of an Intel Celeron Processor, an i830M4
chipset Intel motherboard and I am running WindowsCE .Net 4.2 here. The
board is targeted at Notebook devices. This is acting as my Windows CE
device while I am using a
Shouldn't it be possible to capture a list of users on a windows box by
only using the Win32::API module? I am aware that Win32::NetAdmin and
Win32::AdminMisc have wrappers around C functions that accomplish this but
can someone show me how you would accomplish this using the Win32::API.
I assume
for cygwin?
> - Original Message -
> From: TJ Anthony
> To: Dmitry Nikolayev
> Cc: p6i List
> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 4:51 AM
> Subject: Re: cygwin
> Dmitry Nikolayev wrote:
> >Did Somebody try to assemble parrot on CygWin?
> >I
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