Parrot release 0.5.2

2008-01-15 Thread Bob Rogers
. . . is now underway. Since I started it by creating a release branch, the "code slush" is over, and the trunk is once again open for business as usual. Thanks for your patience, -- Bob

Re: Gearing up for Parrot release 0.5.2

2008-01-14 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, chromatic wrote: > On Monday 14 January 2008 08:56:08 Andy Dougherty wrote: > > > It doesn't work for me on Solaris. What to do with that information, > > I leave up to you. > > The next step is to get some debugging information. > > What's the generated compilation line?

Re: Gearing up for Parrot release 0.5.2

2008-01-14 Thread chromatic
On Monday 14 January 2008 08:56:08 Andy Dougherty wrote: > It doesn't work for me on Solaris. What to do with that information, > I leave up to you. The next step is to get some debugging information. What's the generated compilation line? What's wrong with it? What should the right one be?

Re: Gearing up for Parrot release 0.5.2

2008-01-14 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Bob Rogers wrote: >From: Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:43:24 -0500 (EST) > >Please verify that it actually works, first. Last I checked (Friday) it >didn't, due to linker issues. I also recall some guesswork on the list >

Re: Gearing up for Parrot release 0.5.2

2008-01-13 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 02:43:24PM -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote: > Please also verify that you want to publicly announce the name of the > executable as 'perl6'. I recall there was some question about that too, > though I wasn't involved in any of it, so I don't know where it stands at > the mome

Re: Gearing up for Parrot release 0.5.2

2008-01-13 Thread Andy Lester
On Jan 13, 2008, at 8:12 PM, Bob Rogers wrote: If there is any doubt, it would be better to wait, and let it mature a bit. We can always "shout it from the rooftops" at the next release. I disagree. It need not be perfect, and I'd like to keep this momentum going. Even if you have to do

Re: Gearing up for Parrot release 0.5.2

2008-01-13 Thread Bob Rogers
From: chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:59:20 -0800 On Saturday 12 January 2008 20:14:55 Andy Lester wrote: > Parrot 0.5.2 brings a major new feature to users: The ability to build > a perl6 executable. > > Parrot has been creating bytecode for years, bu

Re: Gearing up for Parrot release 0.5.2

2008-01-13 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Andy Lester wrote: > Please put something in the top, shouting from the rooftops, that we can now > say "make perl6". Please verify that it actually works, first. Last I checked (Friday) it didn't, due to linker issues. I also recall some guesswork on the list about share

Re: Gearing up for Parrot release 0.5.2

2008-01-13 Thread chromatic
On Saturday 12 January 2008 20:14:55 Andy Lester wrote: > It's a start, but how about this: > > --- begin --- > > Parrot 0.5.2 brings a major new feature to users: The ability to build > a perl6 executable. > > Parrot has been creating bytecode for years, but the conversion of > these Parrot bytec

Re: Gearing up for Parrot release 0.5.2

2008-01-13 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
On Jan 12, 2008 11:22 PM, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 0.5.2 release is coming up this Tuesday (January 15), so I've > updated NEWS with a summary of changes since 0.5.1 based on the commit > logs, which I've also included below. Please take a look and make sure > I haven't misre

Re: Gearing up for Parrot release 0.5.2

2008-01-12 Thread Andy Lester
On Jan 12, 2008, at 11:33 PM, Bob Rogers wrote: One line is fine for NEWS, I think. Text is cheap. If people want to skip past it, they can. We need to be talking more about what we're doing. Consider the outside person who's only vaguely, if at all, familiar with Parrot. "pbc_to

Re: Gearing up for Parrot release 0.5.2

2008-01-12 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Andy Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:29:24 -0600 On Jan 12, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Bob Rogers wrote: > One line is fine for NEWS, I think. Text is cheap. If people want to skip past it, they can. We need to be talking more about what we're doing. Con

Re: Gearing up for Parrot release 0.5.2

2008-01-12 Thread Matisse Enzer
On Jan 12, 2008, at 8:29 PM, Andy Lester wrote: We need to be talking more about what we're doing. Consider the outside person who's only vaguely, if at all, familiar with Parrot. "pbc_to_exe" means nothing to them. ++ --- Matisse Enz

Re: Gearing up for Parrot release 0.5.2

2008-01-12 Thread Andy Lester
On Jan 12, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Bob Rogers wrote: One line is fine for NEWS, I think. Text is cheap. If people want to skip past it, they can. We need to be talking more about what we're doing. Consider the outside person who's only vaguely, if at all, familiar with Parrot. "pbc_to_exe"

Re: Gearing up for Parrot release 0.5.2

2008-01-12 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Andy Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:14:55 -0600 On Jan 12, 2008, at 10:07 PM, Bob Rogers wrote: > How about leading with > >- "make perl6" now builds a Perl6 executable > > as a section of its own? It's a start, but how about this: One

Re: Gearing up for Parrot release 0.5.2

2008-01-12 Thread Andy Lester
On Jan 12, 2008, at 10:07 PM, Bob Rogers wrote: How about leading with - "make perl6" now builds a Perl6 executable as a section of its own? It's a start, but how about this: --- begin --- Parrot 0.5.2 brings a major new feature to users: The ability to build a perl6 executable

Re: Gearing up for Parrot release 0.5.2

2008-01-12 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Andy Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:31:36 -0600 On Jan 12, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Bob Rogers wrote: > - Implementation > + New "pbc_to_exe" utility turns bytecode to executables Please put something in the top, shouting from the rooftops, that we ca

Re: Gearing up for Parrot release 0.5.2

2008-01-12 Thread Andy Lester
On Jan 12, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Bob Rogers wrote: - Implementation + New "pbc_to_exe" utility turns bytecode to executables Please put something in the top, shouting from the rooftops, that we can now say "make perl6". That "pbc_to_exe" is interesting to core people, maybe, but "make perl

Gearing up for Parrot release 0.5.2

2008-01-12 Thread Bob Rogers
The 0.5.2 release is coming up this Tuesday (January 15), so I've updated NEWS with a summary of changes since 0.5.1 based on the commit logs, which I've also included below. Please take a look and make sure I haven't misrepresented anything, especially in the "languages" and "compilers" depart