Re: [perl #50622] "nmake test" bug?

2008-02-07 Thread jerry gay
On Feb 7, 2008 10:21 AM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 07 February 2008 07:48:03 jerry gay wrote: > > > On Feb 7, 2008 5:38 AM, via RT Ted Neward > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > t/library/pcre

Re: Remove Test::Simple from Repository

2008-02-18 Thread jerry gay
On Feb 18, 2008 5:41 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If we're relying on at least Perl 5.8.0 to build Parrot, can we rely on the > presence of Test::Simple in the installed Perl? It's a core module as far > back as 5.8.0. > +1 ~jerry

Re: [perl #50956] Problems building in VS2008 with latest SVN tip

2008-02-20 Thread jerry gay
On Feb 20, 2008 3:59 AM, Cosimo Streppone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Peters wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2008 3:45 AM, via RT Ted Neward > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> # New Ticket Created by "Ted Neward" > >> # Please include the string: [perl #50956] > >> # in the subject line of all futu

Re: [perl #51232] Configure.pl needs a has_function() function.

2008-02-28 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:26 AM, via RT Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty > # Please include the string: [perl #51232] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=51232

Re: Summer of Parrot

2008-03-03 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Daniel Arbelo Arrocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > I've been following parrot development for quite a while and have > dived into it's internals over the past months. Fortunately, I've > recently acquired more spare time than I used to have,

Re: How to build Rakudo - the site is currently broken

2008-03-03 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I wanted to build Rakudo, but I could not find the instructions in > the Parrot source code > and the links on the rakudo.org site all return 500 error... > rakudo lives in languages/perl6/ in the parrot source tree. the

Re: pdd17pmc branch review

2008-03-05 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:14 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 04 March 2008 19:09:48 Will Coleda wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:39 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: [svn:parrot] r26321 - in trunk/languages/perl6: config/makefiles src/classes src/pmc

2008-03-12 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:36 AM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 11 March 2008 22:59:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Modified: > >trunk/languages/perl6/config/makefiles/root.in > >trunk/languages/perl6/src/classes/Bool.pir > >trunk/languages/perl6/src/pmc/perl6b

Re: [perl #41165] [PATCH] appropriate handle CRLE in Here Docs

2008-03-16 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 8:09 AM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's been no activity in this RT for more than a year, so I am > resolving the ticket. > we have a category for this called 'stalled'. it's a better reflection of status than 'closed' in cases like this in my opi

Re: [perl #49758] [BUG] rakudo segfaults after "No scope found for PAST::Var" error

2008-03-17 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Will Coleda via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon Mar 17 09:34:24 2008, cognominal wrote: > > $?SUB is not reset between two evals so the outer to an undefined > > block. I am not sure this is > > the best place to reset $?SUB. > > At least if seems to f

Re: [perl #40817] [TODO] track generated files during the configure/make process

2008-03-23 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:49 PM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, the more I look at this, the more I realize that even the improved > version of my patch is not ready for prime time. While it DWIMs when > you call 'perl Configure.pl', it doesn't when you call 'perl > Confi

Re: [perl #38194] [TODO] build - optimize pmc2c.pl

2008-03-23 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 6:21 PM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat Mar 22 10:38:42 2008, doughera wrote: > > > Just be careful that 'use lib' doesn't look outside of the parrot source > > tree. If pmc2c.pl is normally invoked from the root directory, then > > ../lib and ..

Re: [perl #38194] [TODO] build - optimize pmc2c.pl

2008-03-23 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 9:39 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 23 March 2008 20:58:24 jerry gay wrote: > > > why not put the location of parrot's lib dir in > > Parrot::Config::Generated, and look it up when needed? > > Isn't Parrot:

Re: [perl #51916] Error in tests after build

2008-03-26 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:34 PM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri Mar 21 19:23:13 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > No, and it appears not be part of Bundle::Parrot on CPAN, either. We'll > > have to rectify this. > > > > Coke asked me to pose this question for general

Re: [perl #48014] [DEPRECATED] PMC union struct

2008-03-26 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:30 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 25 March 2008 21:01:41 Will Coleda via RT wrote: > > > On Sat Dec 01 14:22:59 2007, coke wrote: > > > from DEPRECATED.pod > > > > The PMC union struct is deprecated and will be removed once all core PMCs > > > ha

Re: [perl #51916] Error in tests after build

2008-03-26 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:21 AM, jerry gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:34 PM, James Keenan via RT > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > &g

Re: [perl #52130] [BUG] postconfigure tests hanging on feather.

2008-03-26 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:43 AM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed Mar 26 07:27:44 2008, coke wrote: > > On feather, when running 'make test', the following tests both hang in > > an svn checkout: > > > > t/postconfigure/03-revision.t # hangs after test 4 > > t/postconfig

Re: Deprecating PAST-pm

2008-03-26 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:32:46PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Modified: > >trunk/apps/p3/cgi-pir/slides.pir > >trunk/compilers/past-pm/PAST/Node.pir > >trunk/compilers/past-pm/POST/Node.pir >

Re: [perl #52220] Test 335 of t/op/01-parse_ops.t segfaults

2008-03-29 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:42 PM, via RT Seneca Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by "Seneca Cunningham" > # Please include the string: [perl #52220] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=

Re: wishlist for NQP

2008-03-31 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: "Patrick R. Michaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:53:25 -0500 > > >On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 02:48:11PM -0700, chromatic wrote: >> On Thursday 27 March 2008 18:20:21 Patrick R. Michaud wrot

Re: [perl #52288] [install] undefined reference to `Parrot_set_executable_name', linking failed

2008-04-02 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Christian Aperghis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andy Dougherty a écrit : > > > > > On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Christian Aperghis-Tramoni wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have exactly the same problem under a Debian system. > > > Configure works properly but make ends with the sam

Re: [PDD19] some remarks/proposals

2008-04-02 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Klaas-Jan Stol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > i have some remarks/proposals on the current PDD 19 (PIR). > It already is full with proposals and issues that must be resolved > before it can be pushed out of draft status, but I figured now is the > time (as

Re: tutorial, blog, hackathon

2008-04-03 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Joshua McAdams wrote: > > > > > > > The dorms that we have this year have large common areas that we have > > > > 24x7 access too. I can investigate them more if I need too. > > > > > > This would be excellent. If t

Re: get_namespace Oddity

2008-04-06 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 13:25:33 -0400 > > > > From: chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 09:52:34 -0700 > > ... compounded by the fact that I can't

Re: What in lieu of the C opcode?

2008-04-06 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I notice that C is deprecated in favor of "methods on the > ParrotIO object" (per RT #48589), but I can't figure out what. Is this > because the new methods have not been implemented yet? TIA, > precisely. allison and i

Re: Nomenclature Question - BEGIN etc.

2008-04-10 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:31 PM, John M. Dlugosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Consider the words that may be used to introduce a block for a special > purpose, like > > BEGIN > END > INIT > CATCH > etc. > > What do you call those? They are not even "special named blocks" because > that is no

Re: failure notice

2008-04-10 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a larger question, I'm wondering if it's time to slush/freeze > the Synopses as historical documents and put all spec effort into > the new form (presumably as a wiki that knows how to serialize into > a document). I

Re: [perl #52776] [configure][BUG] $(RM_F) uses $(PERL)

2008-04-12 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:15 PM, via RT Bernhard Schmalhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Bernhard Schmalhofer > # Please include the string: [perl #52776] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.

Re: [perl #52788] gettext not being detected

2008-04-12 Thread jerry gay
thanks for the reports. i needed some feedback on this step in order to make it more portable. in order to do this correctly, i needed to determine if GNU libc is installed. from the gettext overview (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Overview): Note that on GNU systems,

Re: [svn:parrot] r26959 - trunk/src

2008-04-13 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 02:01:50PM -0700, chromatic wrote: > > On Sunday 13 April 2008 11:26:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Modified: > > >trunk/src/main.c > > > > > > Log: > > > [gettext] setup get

Re: [perl #52838] [CORE] Remove the saveall and restoreall ops

2008-04-13 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 7:36 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 13 April 2008 19:30:50 Bob Rogers wrote: > > >From: "James Keenan via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:13:01 -0700 > > > >But here is a patch which partially implements the object

Re: macro PIR needs

2008-04-14 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Klaas-Jan Stol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMCC's macro processor doesn't currently allow for uniquely generated > variable names. It's in the pdd (19), but not yet implemented. > > You're right in that it only works for labels. > > kjs > > > > > On Mon, Apr 14

release prep: NEWS, CREDITS and PLATFORMS updates welcome

2008-04-14 Thread jerry gay
as of r26974, i've updated the NEWS file for the release. it's been a busy month, especially for languages. i've updated information on the languages with which i'm most familiar, but your input is most welcome. also, could somebody peruse the svn log since the last release (r26484) and add update

Re: macro PIR needs

2008-04-14 Thread jerry gay
> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:03:44 +0200 > > From: François Perrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: jerry gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > <

Re: [perl #52894] config detection perldoc failing due to write permissions

2008-04-15 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:25 PM, via RT Andy_Bach @ wiwb. uscourts. gov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > # Please include the string: [perl #52894] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/D

Parrot 0.6.1 "Bird of Paradise" Released

2008-04-15 Thread jerry gay
Aloha! On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.6.1 "Bird of Paradise." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 0.6.1 can be obtained via CPAN (soon), or follow the download instructions at http://parrotcode.org/sourc

working out kinks in the parrot release process

2008-04-16 Thread jerry gay
one consistent trouble spot in the parrot release process is the CPAN upload process. often times, we have trouble with perl modules that have been added, deleted, or renamed causing the release to be marked as 'unauthorized'. dealing with unauthorized releases involves intervention from a pause ad

Re: working out kinks in the parrot release process

2008-04-16 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Mark Glines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:45:22 -0700 > "jerry gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > also, i'd like to automate more of the release process. currently, we > > have a period of

Re: Notes on removing stack.ops, further steps

2008-04-22 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Tonight I resolved RT#52838 and RT#52840, eliminating the > > saveall/restoreall > > opcodes, the register stack, and fixing up t

Re: mod_parrot uses string_nprintf

2008-04-22 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Donald Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to build mod_parrot against Parrot 0.6.1 and have found that > string_nprintf no longer exists. I see from ticket #44053 that the function > was removed since it had no users. > > What's the preferred s

Re: [perl #53270] [TODO] Rename/refactor _handle_mswin32()

2008-04-25 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Geoffrey Broadwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Subtle note -- the || really wants to be //, but as I recall we're not > allowed to assume that // is there yet.) > correct, parrot depends on perl 5.8, so we can't rely on //. so i strongly suggest you use the idi

Re: [perl #53344] [PATCH] Misplaced brace in src/gc/dod.c

2008-04-25 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:12 AM, via RT Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty > # Please include the string: [perl #53344] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=53344

Re: New Committer: Andrew Whitworth

2008-05-09 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After some administrative snafus, we've finally gotten Andrew's commit > bit assigned! > > I have assigned him several tickets in RT as penance. ^_^ > wonderful! as a point of introduction, andrew has provided a number of qual

Re: [perl #53916] [PATCH] Rewrite of docs/book/Chapter1

2008-05-09 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:27 AM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - I'm not sure how accurate or useful the discussion of formal roles is. For > example, we seem to be doing fine without a pumpking, and this is the only > place I've ever heard the term "platform porter" > for the canonical

Re: Create a sub of a particular type

2008-05-16 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Jonathan Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 01:38:46 +0200 > > Bob Rogers wrote: > > It is a good idea. I think I would call it ":class", though. > > I did ponder that, and then worried t

[CAGE] STICKY_FILES is a poor name

2008-05-22 Thread jerry gay
in parrot's main makefile (config/gen/makefiles/root.in) there's a variable named STICKY_FILES that collects all the files that should be removed during 'make realclean'. it's an awful name. something more descriptive, like CONFIGURE_GENERATED_FILES or similar would be better. a general going-over

Re: [perl #54988] AutoReply: [PATCH] enhance t/harness (again)

2008-05-28 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Moritz Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > perl6 via RT wrote: >> Attached patch enhances t/harness, this time it offers the possibility >> to call fudge on a per-file base (as requested on IRC by particle and >> pmichaud, iirc). >> >> The patch adds a --configfudge o

Re: [perl #55304] [PATCH] eval_(dies|lives)_ok methods for rakudo's Test.pm, and more tests

2008-06-04 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Moritz Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oops, forgot to attach patch. Now it's really there. > thanks, applied as of r28074. ~jerry

Re: [perl #55332] [BUG] can't build parrot on win32 + strawberry perl

2008-06-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Klaas-Jan Stol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > somehow a fresh checkout has resolved the problem > > (but my other sandbox was still up to date according to svn status...) > > anyhow, this ticket can be rejected. > > kjs > i had this same problem, and it was "resolved"

Re: [perl #55304] [PATCH] eval_(dies|lives)_ok methods for rakudo's Test.pm, and more tests

2008-06-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Moritz Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ronald Schmidt wrote: >> Moritz Lenz wrote: >>> Oops, forgot to attach patch. Now it's really there. >>> >>> >> Your implementations of eval_lives_ok and eval_dies_ok seem >> inconsistent. eval_lives_ok uses try and eval_dies

Re: [perl #55304] [PATCH] eval_(dies|lives)_ok methods for rakudo's Test.pm, and more tests

2008-06-06 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Vasily Chekalkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jerry gay wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Moritz Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Oops, forgot to attach patch. Now it's really there. &g

Re: [perl #52776] [PATCH] Allow @foo@ syntax when setting config data.

2008-06-07 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Bernhard Schmalhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:17:33PM -0700, Will Coleda via RT wrote: >> >>> >>> Let's borrow the syntax from the makefile generation itself, and just >>> have RM_F's definition be: >>> >>> +rm_f => '@

Re: [PATCH] more tests for spectest_regression

2008-06-14 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Moritz Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Attached patch adds three more test files (list builtins). > > The last two tests in joint. are likely to be wrong, and are fudged as > such. Further clarification is welcome. > > More on that in a separate mail. > thanks,

Re: Parrot and Smolder

2008-06-17 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Michael Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got this working pretty well on my checkout (except that the current > revision, #28476, doesn't build). You can do a "make smolder_test" and have > the > results sent to the Smolder server. I talked with chromatic

Re: [perl #56020] [OK]: Report on Parrot Build Fest at YAPC

2008-06-19 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Packy Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Jun 18, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Parrot via RT wrote: >> > Successful parrot build on ancient Debian/i386 system, most of the >> > way through "make test" (it's taking _forever_, mostl

Re: [perl #43857] [TODO] Refactor config probes that are used only by language implementation

2008-06-22 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Bernhard Schmalhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Keenan via RT schrieb: >> >> On Fri Jul 13 09:58:33 2007, bernhard wrote: >> >>> >>> There are several config probes that are only used for language >>> implementations. >>> Examples are config/auto/m4.pm and c

Re: [perl #56310] [Patch] unset $(PERLDOC) breaks building on OS X

2008-06-25 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 7:15 PM, via RT Seneca Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by "Seneca Cunningham" > # Please include the string: [perl #56310] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=

Re: [perl #53976] [PATCH] Remove tools/dev/ops_renum.mak

2008-07-02 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:03 AM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Second, two notes about the branch: >> >> In a fresh checkout, if I 'make renumberops' with no local >> modifications, src/ops/ops.num changes. >> If I rename the op store_lex to barf_lex, and run 'make renumberops',

Re: [svn:parrot] r28816 - trunk/languages/perl6/tools

2008-07-03 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:06 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >$ parrot perl6.pbc --output=buggy.pir --trace=PIR buggy.p6 > s/trace/target/

Re: step size of nums

2008-07-10 Thread jerry gay
2008/7/10 TSa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > HaloO, > > Larry Wall wrote: >> Well, maybe 0 .. 10-ε or some such. > > This ε there is what I have as the .step method of nums > in the thread "The Inf type". That is $min..^$max is the > same as $min..($max-$max.step). For Ints the .step is > always 1. For Num

Re: .parrot_current_rev

2008-07-15 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The file .parrot_current_rev is missing in the Release, and also the > revision is nowhere > mentioned in any Release Note, not the ChangeLog and not in news. > This is annoying, because you don't know if a particular bugfix

Re: CPAN-Permissions for Perl 5 Modules

2008-07-15 Thread jerry gay
i seem to recall that we agreed instead to noindex the Parrot:: modules... Nobody is expected to use them outside parrot anyway. On 7/15/08, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 15 July 2008 17:23:20 James E Keenan wrote: > >> Bernhard Schmalhofer wrote: > >> > for Parrot 0.6.4 follow

Re: Logo considerations

2009-03-23 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:22, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Hats off to the designer of the gimel symbol - the associations with anarchy > are probably right for perl6. But to be honest, a letter didnt quite inspire > me. Since, I dont want to criticize without providing other ideas, here are > som

Re: %ARGH

2009-04-19 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 18:57, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: >        Hi all.  Can we change %*OPTS to %*ARGH ?  By analogy with @ARGS, but > a hash of args?  I've always used that, and kind of like the amusement > factor :). > > cute, but please, no. %*OPTS is descriptive and properly huffmanized. f

Re: [perl #65006] mingw32-make realclean doesn't clean everything

2009-04-27 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 08:02, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 07:04:28AM -0700, webmas...@cosmicperl.com via RT > wrote: >> Infinoid helped me track the problem down to * being escaped on some of >> the directories for the cleanup. So things like:- >> $(PMC_DIR)\*.h >> Need t

Re: Embedded comments: two proposed solutions to the comment-whole-lines problem

2009-08-11 Thread jerry gay
for the latest spec changes regarding this item, see http://perlcabal.org/svn/pugs/revision/?rev=27959. is everyone equally miserable now? ;) ~jerry

Re: S26 - The Next Generation

2009-08-19 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:03, Kyle Hasselbacher wrote: > Perl 5 programmers are sometimes surprised to find that 'perl -c > strange.pl' can execute code.  Imagine their surprise to find that > 'perl6doc' does too. > this is why it's spelled 'perl6 --doc', which should give you some hint that you'r

Parrot 1.6.0, "half-pie" Released!

2009-09-15 Thread jerry gay
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 1.6.0 "half-pie." Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 1.6.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site, or follow the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who wo

Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #21 ("Seattle")

2009-09-17 Thread jerry gay
On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the September 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #21 "Seattle". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1]. The tarball for the September 2009 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakud

Re: r29129 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-19 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:17, Thom Boyer wrote: > I'm curious about the change from "blorst" to "blast." I quickly figured out > that "blorst" was > derived from "BLock OR STatement" (as S04 used to say: "In fact, > most of these phasers will take either a block or a statement (known as > a I in

Re: Command-line args (weekly contribution to P6)

2010-05-26 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 00:53, Moritz Lenz wrote: > The spec doesn't elaborate on how the short args are specified in the > signature of MAIN. I see two possible approaches (that don't contradict): > > 1) one renames them in the signature, so it would like > > sub MAIN(:name(:$n)) > > then $n has

Re: Radix (base) conversion

2010-07-23 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 05:17, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote: > Hi. > > I was fiddling about with a small example of how nice radix adverbials are > for conversion: > > my $x = 6*9; > say :13($x); > > rakudo: 69 > > ($x = 54 in base 10, but 54 in base 13 is 69 in base 10.) > > Strangely enough, I cannot f

Re: Radix (base) conversion

2010-07-23 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 07:45, Mark J. Reed wrote: > No, 42/13 is 42 over 13, which is 3 + 3/13.  Let's not confuse > fractions and bases, please. > ha! yet another case of crossed wires too early in the morning. sorry for the confusion, i've been making similar apologies all day. too bad i don'

Re: How are unrecognized options to built-in pod block types treated?

2010-08-04 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 15:56, Damian Conway wrote: > Carl proposed: > >> The other path that seems reasonable to me would be to use the same >> naming scheme as for the block types, i.e. reserve all-upper and >> all-lower forms (and die if an unrecognized one of this form is >> encountered), and l

Re: need <-[x]> help

2018-05-03 Thread jerry gay
you want a negative lookahead assertion, which are described (with an example) at https://docs.perl6.org/language/regexes#Lookahead_Assertions On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 3:10 AM, Todd Chester wrote: > Hi All, > > What I am trying to do is to replace a quote `"` > with `inches`, but NOT when the quot

Re: I need `dir` help

2018-05-10 Thread jerry gay
i'm afraid you didn't read the docs very closely... Returns the contents of a directory as a lazy list of IO::Path objects stringifying an IO::Path object gives you a large string. the examples in the docs take up more room than the description of the routine. here's the first: Examples: > # T

Re: s:g/T/U/ doesn't work ?

2012-10-24 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Marc Chantreux wrote: > Cannot assign to a non-container > in sub infix:<=> at src/gen/CORE.setting:11692 > in block at /tmp/ZZZ:4 > you're attempting to modify a string constant, which cannot be modified. try something like (untested): my $snippet

[perl #28995] 'make test' failures

2005-11-11 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
i have a sneaking suspicion that this test no longer fails, but there are no smoke reports for ppc-linux for me to verify. is there someone with that cpu/arch combo who can produce a test result to either prove or disprove my claim? ~jerry

[perl #31181] [TODO] Strings - character class & properties testing

2005-11-11 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
has this been addressed, even partially? it seems that it has, but this ticket, nor the related email thread (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals/29394) has been updated since may 2005. ~jerry

[perl #35391] [TODO] filepath manipulations

2005-11-11 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
forgot to copy p6i > [particle - Fri Nov 11 11:41:28 2005]: > > > [leo - Tue May 10 05:13:47 2005]: > [above code snipped] > > As a starter an equivalent of File::Spec::catfile() would suffice to be > > able to rewrite above code. > > > File::Spec::catdir() has been implemented for win32. catfi

[perl #36606] [PATCH] create t/r6rules/rx_grammar.t - a new (currently failing) test of pge

2005-11-14 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
> [pmichaud - Thu Jul 21 02:10:03 2005]: > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:25:08AM -0700, Mitchell N Charity wrote: > > PGE is currently passing all tests, but failing to run a "large" pugs > > grammar (one for p6 regexps). So I transliterated part of the grammar > > into a (failing) test. Attach

[perl #36258] [RFE] parrotbug should include the SVN revision.

2005-11-14 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
> [bernhard - Mon Jun 13 12:16:32 2005]: > It might be nice to have the SVN revision, or a list of SVN revisions, > as a keyword of the RT tickets. For example when a bug was reported, > when a Patch was applied and when a problem was declared to be fixed. > yes, it can see it being useful. then a

[perl #37788] [TODO] dir reorg: move imcc/docs/ to docs/imcc/

2005-12-05 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
applied as r10353. i made some formatting changes and updated links in the documents, and had to modify the manifest and some html document generation code. all in all, a pretty simple change. it would be great if somebody could take a look at the docs as a whole and rework them where necessary (

[perl #37788] [TODO] dir reorg: move imcc/docs/ to docs/imcc/

2005-12-05 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
i will be beginning this task soon. i expect it won't affect the build much, as it's a docs dir, but be aware. ~jerry

[perl #38140] src/classes/coroutine.pmc has CRLF line terminators

2006-01-03 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
committed fix as r10873. thanks for reporting. ~jerry

[perl #38141] [PATCH] CFLAGS missed two files in src/ reorganization

2006-01-03 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
thanks, applied as r10874. ~jerry

[perl #17562] Segfault in stack handling code running ELIZA

2006-04-26 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
languages/BASIC has been broken for almost two years, and after multiple followups, nobody has claimed responsibility for the language implementation or a fix. this ticket has been marked 'stalled'.

[perl #40370] [PATCH] code_coda.t update

2006-09-20 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
thanks, applied as r14671. ~jerry

[perl #40371] [PATCH] as2c.pl C-file coda fix

2006-09-20 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
thanks, applied as r14673, with a minor fix: -$print_coda(); +&print_coda(); i'm not sure tools/dev/as2c.pl is used, as the only makefile that calls it isn't generated (config/gen/cpu/i386/Makefile), it's not platform-independent, and the files it generates are committed to the repository. but, t

[perl #40372] [PATCH] C coda fix in parrot/compilers

2006-09-20 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
thanks, applied as r14674. ~jerry

[perl #40373] [PATCH] C coda fix in parrot/config/gen

2006-09-20 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
thanks, applied as r14675. nice work, paul. ~jerry

[perl #40374] [PATCH] C coda fix in parrot/include

2006-09-20 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
thanks, applied as r14676. ~jerry

[perl #40393] [PATCH] C coda fix in parrot/src

2006-09-22 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
thanks, applied as r14688. ~jerry

[perl #40507] [PATCH] Removal of cuddled else in pmc files

2006-10-11 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
thanks, applied as r14897. ~jerry

[perl #40543] [NEW] Test for space after curly braces

2006-10-17 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
On Tue Oct 17 07:33:02 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, the verdict defnitely seems to be that trailing space and tab > characters are annoyances that should go away :-) This patch adds a > new test (in place of the curly-space test I posted earlier) which > searches for superfluous trailing

[perl #41267] [TODO] rename 'clip' pdd directory to 'draft'

2007-01-22 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
'clip' has now been renamed to 'draft', and all references have been updated (r16761.) coke++ for updating the website. ~jerry

[perl #41323] [CAGE] convert C to C

2007-01-25 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
works great here on win32--ticket closed. ~jerry

[perl #40626] [BUG] :vtable fails for subclasses of core classes

2007-02-23 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
this bug seems to be resolved as of r17163. however, i'm not closing this ticket until the example code in the original post is added as a test. ~jerry

[perl #25253] [PATCH] Remove Parrot_INTERP

2007-03-08 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
chromatic~ embed/extend is up your alley. do you see a problem with removing Parrot_INTERP since we've already got Parrot_Interp laying around? even though this patch is about three years old, it looks almost valid, and should be quick and easy to apply, if approved. ~jerry

[perl #36647] 'make languages' should continue after building a language failed

2005-07-27 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
leo's fix (r8695) works just fine on windows :) but what is all this .dummy business? tcl: tcl.dummy tcl.dummy: - $(MAKE_C) tcl tcl.test: - $(MAKE_C) tcl test tcl.clean: - $(MAKE_C) tcl clean can't that just be tcl: - $(MAKE_C) tcl etc. ~jerry

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