Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r14784 - trunk/docs/pdds/clip

2006-10-12 Thread Jonathan Worthington
Hi, Muchly delayed reply, sorry. Karl Forner wrote: Just a little trick that can help. If the parrot interpreter in in your path, you can workaround the need to specify the aboslute path by using the env command. For instance: #! /usr/bin/env parrot I used that trick to enable the use of per

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r14784 - trunk/docs/pdds/clip

2006-10-01 Thread Karl Forner
Hi all, It crossed my mind that we could do this, but I rejected it since it's not really helpful. The #! line is generally only applicable to UNIX-y systems. Even on those systems that do support it, the path to Parrot won't always be the same either. Just a little trick that can help. If

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r14784 - trunk/docs/pdds/clip

2006-09-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Samstag, 30. September 2006 20:13 schrieb chromatic: > I believe that the Linux kernel at least supports alternate loaders > (besides ld.so) when it knows the magic fingerprint at the start of a file. See also /usr/src/linux/Documentation/mono.txt, which is of course just a specific incarnatio

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r14784 - trunk/docs/pdds/clip

2006-09-30 Thread chromatic
On Saturday 30 September 2006 10:00, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > Finally, if you have a situation where having something that will Just > Execute as a native binary is important, then I guess there's the exec > runcore that will produce you an executable file. I believe that the Linux kernel at

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r14784 - trunk/docs/pdds/clip

2006-09-30 Thread Jonathan Worthington
Ben Morrow wrote: This is probably too late for a change like this, in which case ignore me, No, not too late - it's still a draft so there's time for suggestions. but I don't suppose there's any chance that pbc files could allow an optional #! line, so that they can be used as executables d

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r14784 - trunk/docs/pdds/clip

2006-09-29 Thread Ben Morrow
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[svn:parrot-pdd] r14784 - trunk/docs/pdds/clip

2006-09-28 Thread jonathan
Author: jonathan Date: Thu Sep 28 14:23:15 2006 New Revision: 14784 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/clip/pdd13_bytecode.pod Log: Add draft of the bytecode PDD. This is still missing some changes that need to be made following discussion with Allison, but gives the big picture of what is proposed.