[perl #43305] [TODO] config/auto/perldoc.pm: Write unit tests

2007-12-26 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Wed Dec 26 14:06:12 2007, doughera wrote: > > Or, you could explicitly call the perldoc in $Config{scriptdir} instead of > whatever random 'perldoc' happens to occur first in $PATH. > Ah, that sounds more like it. I will explore this option.

Re: [perl #43305] [TODO] config/auto/perldoc.pm: Write unit tests

2007-12-26 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, James Keenan via RT wrote: > On Wed Dec 26 10:33:28 2007, doughera wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, James Keenan via RT wrote: > > > > > > Given > > that we > > > > have decided that Perl 5.8 is the minimum version of Perl you need > > to > > > > build Parrot, is there *any* p

[perl #43305] [TODO] config/auto/perldoc.pm: Write unit tests

2007-12-26 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Wed Dec 26 10:33:28 2007, doughera wrote: > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, James Keenan via RT wrote: > > > > Given > that we > > > have decided that Perl 5.8 is the minimum version of Perl you need > to > > > build Parrot, is there *any* possibility that someone who gets to > this > > > point in configu

Re: [perl #43305] [TODO] config/auto/perldoc.pm: Write unit tests

2007-12-26 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 26 December 2007 10:32:46 Andy Dougherty wrote: > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, James Keenan via RT wrote: > > An additional thought: Could someone be using an older version of > > perldoc if they are using the perldoc provided by an RPM or a .deb? > Debian certainly supplies 'perldoc' in a

[perl #43299] [TODO] config/auto/gc.pm: Write unit tests

2007-12-26 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Wed Dec 26 10:27:33 2007, doughera wrote: > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, James Keenan via RT wrote: > > > > > Okay, so if only 1 of the 4 possible values for the --gc option works, > > why shouldn't we (or, I, as the cage cleaner in this area) just rip out > > the code for the 3 non-working values? >

Re: GC problem in OrderedHash?

2007-12-26 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:32:15 -0500 From: chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:58:51 -0800 . . . If someone reading this (not just Bob or me) cares to write up some basic tests and can make a failure c

Re: [perl #47347] [TODO] Merge configuration steps gen::cpu and auto::cpu

2007-12-26 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, James Keenan via RT wrote: > Once I got the tuits, the merging of these two Parrot configuration > steps went quite quickly. But before applying a patch to trunk, I would > like the assistance of other testers on the 4 CPU platforms handled by > gen::cpu and what formerly was

Re: [perl #43305] [TODO] config/auto/perldoc.pm: Write unit tests

2007-12-26 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, James Keenan via RT wrote: > On Thu Nov 01 18:53:47 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In configuration step auto::perldoc there is found this code to probe > > for the presence of the perldoc utility and, if present, version thereof: > > > > my $content = capture_output(

Re: [perl #43299] [TODO] config/auto/gc.pm: Write unit tests

2007-12-26 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, James Keenan via RT wrote: > Additional question: The POD to this configuration step class states: > > "--gc" can take the values: > > "gc" > The default. Use the memory allocator in src/recources.c. > > "libc" > Use the C library "malloc" along

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r24108 - in trunk: . docs/pdds

2007-12-26 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
On Dec 25, 2007 4:37 PM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: > > I guess you're right :-) I was thinking of ambiguity, like > > > > sub foo :multi(Integer, Integer) > > .param pmc i :invocant > > .param pmc j > > .param pmc k :invocant > > end > > > > sub foo :mult