Re: Final, no really, Final draft: Conventions and Guidelines for Perl Source Code

2001-08-24 Thread Robert Spier
Just some brief comments... $0.02 or some such. :) -R Quoting Dave Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > =item * > > "K&R" style for indenting control constructs: ie the closing C<}> > should > line up with the opening C etc. You should provide a short example here - K&R has lots of nasties, you

Re: Final, no really, Final draft: Conventions and Guidelines for Perl Source Code

2001-09-07 Thread Robert Spier
>>How about something a little more explicit than XXX, like TODO or FIXME? > Some syntax-highlighting editors highlight "XXX". Let's use that feature. Which ones? emacs doesn't seem to do it by default. > And how can you get more explicit than XXX, anyway? Funny, but I still think TODO or

Re: Svn Commit list...

2005-12-31 Thread Robert Spier
> ... seems to be dead for about a day now, though I know commits are > going through. Fixed. > BCCing webmaster at perl dot org, where this will hopefully open a > ticket. THANK YOU. This meant the message got seen much earlier than it otherwise would, and because of the BCC, no collateral dam

svn performance

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Spier
> snapshots or releases. And, since a checkout takes about an hour (last > time I checked) I tend to be too lazy to fetch one just to make a patch. Only if you're checking out to a Commodore 64. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp$ time svn co http://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk parrot-trunk > /dev/null re

Re: svn performance

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Spier
> Sigh. I wish it were that simple, or that funny. > > $ time wget http://cvs.perl.org/snapshots/parrot/parrot-latest.tar.gz > > real0m16.84s > user0m0.09s > sys 0m0.20s > > $ time svn co http://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk parrot-trunk > > real 2:01:50.3 > user 1:02.0 > sys

Subversion Server Downtime

2006-02-21 Thread Robert Spier
FYI - At some point later this week, or maybe this weekend, I will be taking the perl.org Subversion server down to move it to different hardware. This most likely won't happen until after the imminent Parrot release. >From an end user perspective, nothing should change. (Although we are upgra

Re: Subversion Server Downtime

2006-02-24 Thread Robert Spier
Upgrade complete. You shouldn't notice anything different, except some operations might be faster. -R At Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:25:22 -0800, Robert Spier wrote: > > > FYI - > > At some point later this week, or maybe this weekend, I will be taking > the perl.org Su

Re: [perl x38598] [TODO] PIR Examples, Libraries, and Tests - Migrate to New Subroutine Attributes

2006-02-26 Thread Robert Spier
> Applied in 11755, 11756, and 11758. (Ticket not closed; I don't have > permission.) You shouldn't say things like that. You have permission now. -R (pulling an Audrey.)

Re: libparrot.so.0.4.2

2006-03-25 Thread Robert Spier
> > (If so, as a bit of background it's discussed at the bottom of #38217 > > on RT, and I tried to put together a patch in r11320 but I caused some > > breakage so it's been backed out. I need to revive it) > > Thank you, Nick. How do I get a username and password for RT? http://auth.perl.org/

Re: svn links for the Architecture section on the website?

2006-04-23 Thread Robert Spier
> Given the recent explosion of svn commits in the synopses, and the fact that > the versions of the synopses on the dev.perl.org/perl6 site are lagging a > bit, would it make sense to add a link to the svn site to the > Synopses page? I'd rather not. The ones on the dev site shouldn't have be

Re: languages/ Cleanup

2006-05-27 Thread Robert Spier
> I was going to suggest keeping an archive of this one outside the > repository, but it's only 2 files, so I'll just keep a copy for > myself. (I'd like to revive it at some point in PGE/TGE and the old > implementation could be useful.) Nothing is actually _deleted_ from SVN... it just gets har

perlbug (and parrotbug) upgrade

2006-07-03 Thread Robert Spier
Finally, the moment you've all been waiting for is here! perlbug (http://rt.perl.org/rt3/) has been upgraded to the latest and greatest version (RT 3.6). Here are some changes you might notice: - a new shiny look - no more auth.perl.org, we now authenticate directly from bitcard.org - a p

Re: [netlabs #629] [PATCH] Memory manager/garbage collector -major revision

2002-05-28 Thread Robert Spier
>#define PARROT_str_local(d)\ > STRING * d = NULL; \ > frame frame_##d;\ > int dummy_##d = ( \ > (frame_##d.ptr = &d), \ > (frame_##d.next = stack_top), \ > (stack_top = &frame_##d), \ >

Re: [netlabs #629] [PATCH] Memory manager/garbage collector -major revision

2002-05-28 Thread Robert Spier
>What are the debugging issues you mention? Note that this macro will >never fail: there is no pointer deferencing, no memory allocation, ... Never is a bad word to use for anything more complicated than x=1+2. (Which will hopefully get constant folded and optimized away anyway.) It is impossib

[netlabs #594] TEST: are attachments getting through?

2002-05-29 Thread Robert Spier
Apologies for this test, I'm tracking down reports that attachements aren't getting through the list and getting to the bugtracker. -R

Re: [netlabs #594] TEST: are attachments getting through?

2002-05-29 Thread Robert Spier
Apologies again for this test, I'm tracking down reports that attachements aren't getting through the list and getting to the bugtracker. It helps if I actually attach the temp file. temp Description: Binary data

Re: cvs.perl.org moved

2002-06-06 Thread Robert Spier
>Has the CVSROOT changed ? Last November. :) >>cvs checkout parrot > >/home/perlcvs: no such repository >cvs checkout: authorization failed: server cvs.perl.org rejected access to >/home/perlcvs for user anonymous Use /cvs/public -R

Re: PATCH for Win32 lib/Parrot makefile woes

2002-06-06 Thread Robert Spier
Thanks, Applied. Clinton A. Pierce writes: >Fixes the problem where the toplevel makefile can't descend into lib/Parrot >to do the build necessary for PackFile and friends. Also I think the >single cd .. may potentially be a bug for other platforms as well. > >Apply this and re-run Configure.

[netlabs #590] Can't Print the Sequence slash + zero

2002-06-07 Thread Robert Spier
--- start of forwarded message --- Date: 7 Jun 2002 21:36:26 - From: Joe Yates (via RT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: recipient list not shown: ; Subject: Re: [netlabs #590] Ticket Resolved Message-Id: Dear Daniel, I hope I'm not being a pain. The response to my report was that "This'll

Re: For August

2002-06-10 Thread Robert Spier
I've updated http://www.parrotcode.org/todo with the latest info from Dan. Dan Sugalski writes: >Here's the list 'o stuff I'd like to get done for August: > >*) Multiple interpreters with inter-interpreter calling done right >*) Threads with multiple independent interpreters >*) Method calls >*

Parrot Glossary

2002-06-11 Thread Robert Spier
There's enough words and definitions going by that not everyone understands that it's time for us to have a glossary. I'm willing to do the administrative work of maintaining it, if others send me entries. So... if there are words you think should be in the parrot glossary (the recent discussio

glossary

2002-06-20 Thread Robert Spier
The glossary in cvs docs/glossary.pod is now available on the web: http://www.parrotcode.org/glossary

More Tests!

2002-06-20 Thread Robert Spier
We need more tests. According to.. http://www.hitchhiker.org/parrot_coverage/ only 33% of the lines are covered! if something breaks in the other 67%, we'll never know, unless we have tests. -R --

Re: Web info for perl6

2002-06-22 Thread Robert Spier
H.Merijn Brand writes: >http://www.perl.org/perl6 is a bit behind. Anyone care to update and include >apo-5? And Damian's tour info. I've added Apoc 5. Patches for tour info welcome. -R

Re: [netlabs #758] [PATCH] Fixes for example programs

2002-07-03 Thread Robert Spier
>Perhaps it got mangled? Can you send it to me as an attachment? Attachments can also be sent to the tracker. They're handled better now. -R

Parrot Development Resources

2002-07-11 Thread Robert Spier
Since we've had a few new faces around here recently, I thought it would be a good time to remind people about www.parrotcode.org, and specifically the Development Resources page. http://www.parrotcode.org/resources It looks a lot like this, but with links of course... * Perl 6/Parrot Mail

Re: What's MY.line?

2002-07-11 Thread Robert Spier
Chip Salzenberg writes: >Ouch. I gather, then, that nntp.perl.org does not house complete list >archives, or else the discussion was not on p6-language ... ? It should have complete archives. It uses the same backend data as the html version on archive.develooper.com.

Re: Glossary changes

2002-07-12 Thread Robert Spier
Dan Sugalski writes: >At 12:01 PM -0400 7/12/02, Melvin Smith wrote: >>Did you check docs/ and docs/pdds first? There may already be something >>there. The glossary is probably a good idea anyway. > >I added some definitions to glossary. I think the changes'll be >picked up on parrotcode.org arou

Re: Glossary Requests

2002-07-12 Thread Robert Spier
>I've heard reports of rsync not working. I don't use it, so I dunno >there. If someone's got the proper incantation, or follows the >directions and it doesn't work (when you're *sure* you know what >you're doing) I'll update it appropriately. Yes, this seems broken at the moment. I've opene

Re: Glossary Requests

2002-07-12 Thread Robert Spier
>Correct, I don't maintain the site, but I believe Robert has said he would >accept patches. Yes, if people send me updates/diff/new content's, or just "replace this paragraph with this", I'll do the merges. -R

Tracking Patches (was RE: PARROT QUESTIONS: Use the source, Luke)

2002-07-15 Thread Robert Spier
Brent Dax writes: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ># Good stuff. Didn't you also send out a draft PDD about how ># types should ># be named and managed in parrot at one point? I, for one, > >At one point I sent out a patch to PDD7 that handled type naming. (I don't know what happened to this specific pa

Over-eager spam filtering runs amuck

2002-07-30 Thread Robert Spier
In my never-ending crusade to try and keep the bug system from passing on lots of spam, some messages have been falsely flagged as spam. Please look at tickets 15748 and 15877. We've done a bunch of tweaking tonight, so hopefully the falsepos count will drop and falseneg count will go up. In g

Re: tutorial on submitting patches

2002-07-31 Thread Robert Spier
John Porter writes: > >Aldo Calpini wrote: >> this is a little tutorial about submitting patches >> (should be added to a FAQ, or somewhere where it's handy > >I think this deserves its own page somewhere on >dev.perl.org. Seems like a good idea. I've added it to the queue. It'll end up on parr

Re: problems sending patches

2002-07-31 Thread Robert Spier
>On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 08:44:20AM -0700, Stephen Rawls wrote: >> The last two (well, the only two :) patches I sent >> were counted as spam. Some of the points were becuase Sorry about that! I'm trying to be better safe than sorry in preventing spam from getting to the list. >> Do the patche

Re: problems sending patches

2002-08-03 Thread Robert Spier
>I don't like spam. Thanks for keeping it out. I try. :) >How do you recruit new "someone"s? I head down to the local mall and hold up a big sign. >Are they the same sort of "someone"s who manage perl5 bugs? Yup. (Or just anyone silly enough to volunteer.) >And (IIRC) Spam Assassin is th

Re: [PATCH?] File deletion

2002-08-29 Thread Robert Spier
Bryan C. Warnock writes: >How does one patch a file to delete? > >docs/a5_draft.html can go away now, thank you for playing. rm cvs delete cvs commit

Re: Mode a la mode

2002-08-29 Thread Robert Spier
Bryan C. Warnock writes: >There is a general inconsistency about file permissions throughout the >parrot tree. > >Of the 80+ *.pl scripts, only 8 are 0755 - and Configure.pl isn't one of >them. Some tests are, some aren't; and even some docs are. A list >follows. These have to be fixed in the re

Re: About core.ops patch and pasm syntax

2002-09-07 Thread Robert Spier
>Ok then, [perl #16934] is unvalid, it should be removed from rt unless >we want its syntax as an alternative to the correct way. The removal process looks like: set patch status to "Rejected" (and make sure to send an email with a reason) Change ticket state to resolved. -R

Re: [perl #17194] ScanMail Message: To Sender, action taken by attachment blocking.

2002-09-12 Thread Robert Spier
>> xScanMail for Microsoft Exchange has blocked a file xattachment(s). >is getting trying. Do we have any official public LARTing policy on >braindead systems that mail back to the list? There are too many to properly LART. When I see them, I add them to the Spam filters. Right now we've got 1

Open Patch Status

2002-10-01 Thread Robert Spier
http://www.parrotcode.org/openpatches There are a _lot_ of Pending patches. Within a few weeks, I hope to have an automated email nudging about this weekly. -R (801) [PATCH] PerlArray in scalar context Pending (15345) [PATCH] Generating assemble.pl Pending (15574) [PATCH] RECALL renamed to

Re: Open Patch Status

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Spier
> Here's a couple more that I just stumbled across - they've not been > picked up automatically because they don't have [PATCH] in the header. > (16077) 'assign' opcode and unmorphing > (16098) First draft of PerlScalar PMC I've tagged them both as patches, so they'll show up in the list now. -R

Re: [xperl #x17733] Net::Telnet - Problem on HP-UX

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Spier
George (via RT) writes: ># New Ticket Created by George ># Please include the string: [perl #17733] ># in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. ># http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17733 > Grumble. This guy sent this to the wrong email address. I've boun

Re: the getting started guide

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Spier
>Well here it is, my first attempt at a "getting started" guide. It's >not ready for public consumption, but I would like to hear some When this stabilizes, we can make it available on www.parrotcode.org >I plan to have a lot more diagrams in the document. I am using 'dia' >to create them. I

Re: the getting started guide

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Spier
>2.) You mention getting a Perl distribution for Windows, but don't metnion >getting a C compiler. > I would recommend saying something about CygWin (www.cygwin.com) or >perhaps a dos based C compiler. cvs, perl, and make all become non-issues >when CygWin is added to the mix; although perfo

Re: the getting started guide

2002-10-09 Thread Robert Spier
>I'll see about getting some of the internal structures diagrammed >better, which is the only place things are a little dodgy, but that's >otherwise fine. Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dropped me an email and reminded me about AutoDia http://droogs.org/autodia/ >Now, here's hoping CVS doesn't

Re: the getting started guide

2002-10-09 Thread Robert Spier
>>So the html is canonical and you're converting it to pod? I'm >> confused. >I am writing it in my own format. It lets me take notes, write todo >lists, autogenerate the table of contents and glossary. Then I run it >through some perl that currently spits out html and almost make pod. Whatev

Re: the getting started guide

2002-10-12 Thread Robert Spier
>4)How do I get pod2html to give me html that looks like the docs on >http://www.parrotcode.org/docs/? Ha! :) We're using a slightly tweaked (by Graham Barr for search.cpan.org) version of POD::POM and a stylesheet. You can find the stylesheet here: http://dev.perl.org/perl-styles.css Onc

Re: [perl #17903] [PATCH] sprintf test

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Spier
Steve Fink writes: >> >I don't know exactly who has the permissions to do these things, but >> >I'm pretty sure that if you have commit access then you also have RT >> >futzing access. ^^^ this isn't true. The permissions are seperate (but obviously should be related.) -R

Re: [perl #x17936] [PATCH] MANIFEST

2002-10-21 Thread Robert Spier
>I just wanted to obsolete this Patch, because the missing files now >have entered the MANIFEST. But bugs6.perl.org only tells me "Permission >denied". Im logged in, and the bugtracker recognizes this patch as >mine. I've tweaked the permissions, try again. -R

Re: [perl x18078] Patty's login stuff

2002-10-24 Thread Robert Spier
Obviously spam, sorry folks. It snuck in under the spam filters. X-Spam-Status: No, hits=5.3 required=7.0 tests=CARRIAGE_RETURNS,FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD,MISSING_HEADERS,NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP,NO_REAL_NAME,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,TO_EMPTY version=2.41 -R (pondering his next move in the unending war against spa

CVSMonitor Upgrade

2002-10-30 Thread Robert Spier
I've upgraded the experimental perl.org cvsmonitor implementation. It's very cool. Take a peek: http://rt.perl.org/cgi-bin/cvsmonitor/cvsmonitor.pl?cmd=viewModule&module=perl_public.parrot -or- http://snipurl.com/9hn It gets updated once a day, around 3 AM Pacific time, AKA 6 AM Eastern Time

Re: Perl 6 documentation project mailing list

2002-11-08 Thread Robert Spier
>Ah... that would explain why I haven't seen it then. Looks like >someone broke perl6-all. No, it was just "not configured". Future messages to perl6-documentation should end up on perl6-all. -R

Re: Perl 6 Bugs List

2002-11-17 Thread Robert Spier
chromatic writes: >I've submitted three bugs for Perl 6 to [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're in >RT, but they haven't been announced on this group. I believe Allison >has asked Ask to look into this. Well, since I'm the RT owner, you and she should have asked me, or even better, the bugs6-admin at perl.

Re: [PATCH] More t/p6rules tests

2005-05-18 Thread Robert Spier
> The list server keeps eating my attached homework. Won't let me attach a > .t file. This is because your mailer is declaring it to be an application/x-troff file.

Re: Website still refers to 0.2.0 as latest version

2005-06-17 Thread Robert Spier
Updated. (Sorry for the delay.) -R At Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:18:38 +0100, Roger Browne wrote: > > By the way, the website > http://www.parrotcode.org/ > still refers to 0.2.0 as the latest version. > > Regards, > Roger Browne

Re: [PATCH] Perl 6 FAQ

2005-07-24 Thread Robert Spier
Thanks, applied. At Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:39:42 +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote: > > [1 ] > Below is a patch to remove the first Q&A from: > http://dev.perl.org/perl6/faq.html

Re: [PATCH] Perl 6 FAQ

2005-07-26 Thread Robert Spier
> [1 ] > On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 11:53:01AM -0700, Robert Spier wrote: > > Thanks, applied. > Thanks! However, the rendered form is still of an old revision: > http://dev.perl.org/perl6/faq.html It was still in my staging copy. It should be up now. -R

Re: merge & release

2005-09-28 Thread Robert Spier
We've actually done a merge. It is complete. All committed changes on the leo-ctx5 branch are now on trunk as of rev 9260. The leo-ctx5 branch was deleted as rev 9261. If you have any checkouts of the leo-ctx5 branch, you will need to switch them to trunk cd parrot-checkout-of-leo-ctx5-br

blocked mime types

2005-11-05 Thread Robert Spier
> No, it isn't. =) > > The mail list strips out .t attachments (Robert? is this necessary?) We don't strip .t We strip troff attachments. Really, it's a bad mailer that is labeling the .t file a troff mime-type. I've removed the troff types from the bad mime list. -R

Re: Directory renaming

2002-11-29 Thread Robert Spier
Nicholas Clark writes: >On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 06:22:56PM +0100, Jerome Quelin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Would it be possible to rename the $PARROT/languages/Befunge-93 >> directory into $PARROT/languages/befunge ? >> Indeed, as soon as parrot will support objects, I'll implement the >> befunge 98

Re: Directory renaming

2002-11-29 Thread Robert Spier
>Would it also be your job to do porting of subversion to VMS, so that we >could consider replacing CVS with something that lets clients do directory >moves? :-) Sadly, no. :) But I can tell you that I am actively investigating the use of subversion for future use on perl.org projects. We're st

brainfuck -> bf

2002-12-04 Thread Robert Spier
I've renamed the brainfuck directory to bf, per Dan's request. I _did not_ do the usual magic I do to keep both the old and new names valid. Thus - according to CVS, the brainfuck directory never existed, only one called bf. I updated the MANIFEST, but did not update anything else. -R --

Re: purge: opposite of grep

2002-12-05 Thread Robert Spier
>How about my original inclinaton: "perg"? It just screams out "the >opposite of grep". So it greps a list in reverse order? -R (who does not see any benefit of 'perg' over grep { ! code } )

CVSMonitor

2002-12-15 Thread Robert Spier
I've upgraded the CVS Monitor installation on perl.org http://bugs6.perl.org/cgi-bin/cvsmonitor/cvsmonitor.pl?cmd=viewBrowse It provides a pretty, changeset oriented view of the repositories, with pretty graphs and stuff. I recommend checking it out. -R --

Re: silly test error

2002-12-15 Thread Robert Spier
> >The checkout that rsync is returning must be getting stale. Yeah. Fixed. -R

Re: [perl #x19295] pls do reply

2002-12-20 Thread Robert Spier
Obviously garbage. (And not related to perl6/parrot.) I've cleaned it out of the tracker. -R "Vema, Venkata" (via RT) writes: > >g'day > THANX IN ADVANCE > >**

LXR or GLOBAL Re: new ICU 2.4 release available

2002-12-27 Thread Robert Spier
>Btw - Is there any interest in having a GNU GLOBAL or LXR cross-referenced >web copy of the parrot code? Yes, definitely. We could probably even put it on parrotcode.org or dev.perl.org/perl6. Do you have a recommendation between GLOBAL and LXR? -R

Re: [perl #19517] RT issue

2002-12-27 Thread Robert Spier
>(I don't see an RT queue, so I'm sending this to the parrot queue) There is one, but it's not visible to you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the shortest address to get there. >I have a dev.perl.org account. my email is currently set to "will at >coleda.com". > > For proper tracking, you should send t

Re: LXR or GLOBAL

2003-01-02 Thread Robert Spier
Mitchell N Charity wrote: >Do you have a recommendation between GLOBAL and LXR? > I'd suggest LXR. It understands perl files out-of-the-box, is more I've asked one of our volunteers who already runs some similar systems for us if he can get this running. If not, I'll see about setting you (

Re: [perl #x19800] LOL

2003-01-07 Thread Robert Spier
At Tue, 07 Jan 2003 18:59:22 GMT, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (via RT) wrote: > # New Ticket Created by ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > # Please include the string: [perl #19800] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=19800 > Sme

Re: cvs server full?

2003-01-10 Thread Robert Spier
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > $ ./getparrot > can't create temporary directory /tmp/cvs-serv3864 > No space left on device Oops. Fixed. -R

Re: occasioanl CVS hickups?

2003-01-18 Thread Robert Spier
Odd. There's not enough information in the logs to figure out what's going on. (And the code shouldn't have this kind of failure mode.) If it keeps happening, please keep me in the loop. -R At Fri, 17 Jan 2003 17:00:21 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Cannot open file /tmp/#cvs.lastdir.27414

Re: [perl x20388] I need your info

2003-01-18 Thread Robert Spier
> Please reply with the best time to send your cards to her, I am lost on this one > -Eddie Interesting. Obviously spam. I've dealt with it. Interesting parts, for those who care: X-Mailer: Mach5 Mailer-3.00 PID{5df70590-1abd-4223-8406-483160352ade} RI{38ecd-ff200} Not Licensed for UCE, uce at

Re: [perl #20597] [PATCH] packfile #6

2003-01-29 Thread Robert Spier
> Also I can't work out how to search the list archive at develooper.com. Patches welcome. (Really. I have several archive management tasks that need to get done, and if anyone wants to volunteer) -R

Re: tinderbox troubles?

2003-01-31 Thread Robert Spier
> Strange. I can ssh in, and apachectl claims that the webserver is running, > but I'm getting that error too. > > Ask, Robert: any ideas? Looks like the apache had hung somewhere. I shut it down and started it up, and it seems ok. -R

Re: CGP

2003-02-06 Thread Robert Spier
At Thu, 06 Feb 2003 13:47:45 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > I don't know, why I can't update the MANIFEST, I got a fresh copy added > CGP.pm and... > > $ cvs ci -mCGP MANIFEST > cvs server: Up-to-date check failed for `MANIFEST' > cvs [server aborted]: correct above errors first! What does `cvs

Re: XML within parrot?

2003-02-17 Thread Robert Spier
> target some platform. Targeting parrot with either method would require > access to an XML parser. Is there currently any way to get access to an > XML parser from within parrot? Not today, unless you write a PMC to interface to expat or something -R

Re: Strings and header reuse

2003-02-17 Thread Robert Spier
> documentation--I'll get started on it ASAP so we can make the changes > quickly and get this out of the way once and for all. Famous Last Words!(tm) -R

Re: Parrot for windows?

2003-03-13 Thread Robert Spier
> If we can't find anothr home for it, I can make a spot on > ftp.sidhe.org for it. Not a *fast* home, since it's either 128k or > 192k upstream (depending on which interface is active, don't ask) but > it will work. Maybe when 0.10 is released, Clinton will do another windows build and we can

Re: parrotcode.org version info patch

2003-03-19 Thread Robert Spier
Thanks, applied. Cal Henderson wrote: > > attached below sig. > > --cal > "just take a little look from our side when you can" > > > --- index.html Wed Mar 19 08:10:15 2003 > +++ index.html.new Wed Mar 19 08:11:03 2003 > @@ -62,9 +62,9 @@ > How to get the code > > Periodic releas

Re: 99... (hint: not red baloons)

2003-03-19 Thread Robert Spier
Someone please stick this man's ditty into the examples directory :) -R! Douglas Hunter wrote: > > Thank you everyone for bringing this fun tool to such a useful state so > quickly. The progress Parrot has shown is impressive. I offer you my > thanks in probably not-so-elegantly written pas

Re: [perl #22633] [PATCH] convert parrot to continuation passing style

2003-06-10 Thread Robert Spier
> > mistral-jerome:/tmp > time python test.py > > python test.py 2,59s user 0,00s system 100% cpu 2,582 total > > mistral-jerome:/tmp > ocamlc -o tst test.ml; time ./tst > > ./tst 0,14s user 0,00s system 106% cpu 0,131 total > > mistral-jerome:/tmp > cat test.ml > > let fo

Re: Register access

2003-06-04 Thread Robert Spier
Yep. Seems reasonable. The macros would improve readability IMHO As long as they don't impair debugability. (I make a reference to perl5's macros containing macros, which do different things based on other macros, and other fun things. It's a fine line.) -R

Re: build imcc as parrot

2003-06-04 Thread Robert Spier
Yep. Imcc should definitely move out off languages into its own subdir under the top level (Not in the top level itself). ... Who should do this? I'd be willing to help if given direction. Moving directories around in CVS is AFAIK a PITA. The last such operation was done in the repository di

Re: Stupid Parrot Tricks

2003-07-03 Thread Robert Spier
At Thu, 3 Jul 2003 18:16:45 -0400, Clinton Pierce wrote: > Parrot BASIC CGI > http://www.camfriends.org/testform.html > Let the fun begin. :) Maybe it is time to play with mod_parrot again! -R

Re: Copyrights

2003-07-10 Thread Robert Spier
s/Yet Another Society/The Perl Foundation/g Gregor N. Purdy wrote: All -- I noticed that there are many files with copyrights of "when this is determined...", while some files have a copyright of Yet Another Society. Seems like they should all be Yet Another, or none should be...

Re: OT: Will the State of the Onion be posted online?

2003-07-13 Thread Robert Spier
> Sorry for a slightly off-topic post, but will Larry's State of the Onion > be posted online soon? Yes. http://dev.perl.org/perl6/talks/ -R

Re: OT: Will the State of the Onion be posted online?

2003-07-15 Thread Robert Spier
> Really? I can't find anything about TPC7 in this page.. Sorry, had to take it down. It'll be back up in a few days.

Re: perlbug HOWTO

2003-07-18 Thread Robert Spier
At Fri, 18 Jul 2003 18:19:19 +0100, Tony Bowden wrote: > I've been chatting with Casey about how we should best be dealing with > the perlbug RT interface - e.g. what to do when you come across a bug > that's resolved, what the various statuses mean etc. The proper place for this particular discus

Re: perlbug HOWTO

2003-07-18 Thread Robert Spier
> > I'd rather something that can actually live on bugs.perl.org. > How about a bugs.perl.org Kwiki? I have not yet drunk that particular Kool Aid. I'm happy to accept patches. I also want to retain some level of editorial control over it, to make sure we don't make right-turns. -R

FW: [perl #23084] [The Parrot Primer] Japanese Translation

2003-07-22 Thread Robert Spier
Please CC Mr.Sasada on any response. (I've moved this ticket to the parrot queue.) -R === Forwarded Message: Date: 22 Jul 2003 08:47:22 - Subject: [perl #23084] [The Parrot Primer] Japanese Translation From: "K.Sasada via RT" <> To: "AdminCc of perl Ticket #23084": ; Hi. My name is Koic

HACKING (was [PATCH] Fix copyright notices )

2003-07-27 Thread Robert Spier
> I also changed the other copyright notice at the start of > disassemble.pl. This thread made me wonder where any of this is documented. A lot of projects have a "HACKING" file that explains "ground rules" for contributing to the project -- all in one place. (Or at least it references where th

Re: This Week's Summary

2003-08-11 Thread Robert Spier
> >> list has been about fighting Subversion. However, Arthur did post a mini > >> status update at the end of July > >> http://xrl.us/o2s -- Status report > > > > I am having trouble following this url. Is there another? > > Ah... bugger. I thought ponie-dev got gatewayed through to

Re: [CVS ci] PackFile-15: print warning location

2003-08-24 Thread Robert Spier
> > The HLL doesn't know, how many ops one source line will need. > > Not *normally*, but if it's including code which is already literal > assembler, it does: Imagine a version of lex/yacc wherein the the blocks > of code you give are imcc or pasm (instead of C). Clearly, there's one > op per li

Re: [CVS ci] PackFile-15: print warning location

2003-08-24 Thread Robert Spier
> For that matter, won't the optomizer wreak havoc with other all of the > various other uses of .setline? One would hope. > Anyway, how about this semantic: .setline_i would associate an > ... Before making up semantics, it might be useful to look at what other systems do, like STABS and DWARF

Re: Scrutinizing CPAN distributions (Commenting Styles)

2003-08-18 Thread Robert Spier
> I guess mostly the syntax highlighting is the biggest concern. I > use emacs and that does syntax highlighting for perl files. Is there any > IDE out there that highlights POD differently than code? If that was the > case then I probably wouldn't have a problem with in-module POD. I gue

Re: [perl #x23299] Dynamic type handling in IMCC

2003-08-15 Thread Robert Spier
> I sent a newer patch into bugs-parrot, but it doesn't seem to have > made it around to this list. Should I > a) be more patient (not a problem, this is a minor issue), or > b) resubmit the patch? (to this list or to bugs-parrot?) Only the _initial_ message sent to bugs-parrot gets sent to the l

Re: Streams and Filters (Ticket #31921)

2004-11-07 Thread Robert Spier
> (In my opinion, the line-ending issue isn't a problem for Parrot in > terms of this test--it's legitimate to expect that you can process a > particular file, not matter what platform you happen to be on, and no > matter if the file happens to have been created on another platform.) Also, the pro

Re: RT Ticket Summary

2004-11-18 Thread Robert Spier
> I'd like to see: ... http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/parrot/Overview.html

Re: svn

2004-12-08 Thread Robert Spier
> While I personally like the idea, I think it is unlikely given how > much slower svn is on sizable repositories. Of course I have not > tried it recently, so maybe that has changed... > All that being said, I am in absolutely no position of authority about this... This is, and always has been,

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