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: [perl #46681] [TODO] [C] Use strerror_r instead of strerror

2008-07-18 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Christoph Otto via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu Jul 17 15:53:12 2008, julianalbo wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Christoph Otto via RT >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > With this patch, the new tests still pass on Linux/x86. The patch uses

Re: [perl #57344] [TODO] Change runtime/parrot/* to runtime/*

2008-07-27 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:08:06AM -0700, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: >> In the source repository, the 'parrot' in runtime/parrot/foo is >> pointless. It's a singleton directory, and it's redundant. > > I think that the

Re: [perl #57358] Enable parallel testing

2008-07-28 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # from Moritz Lenz > # on Monday 28 July 2008 09:52: > >>> That's not -just- with the patch, though, is it? I presume you've >>> set TEST_JOBS to be something other than '1' ... >> >>I've set it to 2, and obeserve the error

Re: [perl #56716] [TODO]: speed up the configure tests

2008-07-29 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:28 AM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have prepared a patch which represents an 'svn diff' between trunk and > the 'parallel' branch at the point of the branch's inception. Rather > than swamp your inboxes, I'm posting it here: > > http://thenceforward

Re: [perl #56716] [TODO]: speed up the configure tests

2008-07-30 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:25 PM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue Jul 29 11:01:12 2008, particle wrote: > >> >> >> the failing test: >> t/steps/auto_ctags-01ok 1/31 >> # Failed test 'Got expected result' >> # at t/steps/auto_ctags-01.t line 65. >>

Re: Branching

2008-08-05 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:19 -0400, Michael Peters wrote: >> We also need to think about deprecation cycles. If you deprecate a >> feature in 1 version and then it disappears in the next then the time >> between when my

Re: [perl #57636] [TODO][PDD19] Document the reason for :unique_reg flag

2008-08-07 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:44 AM, Jonathan Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: >> >> I think basically the question remans; is there any way we could do >> without the :unique_reg? >> > Yes: > > 1) Add the reference-taking op and register reference PMC to the Parrot > core.

Re: Reason for attributes.t fail

2008-08-07 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Jonathan Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Rakudo is currently failing t\spec\S12-class\attributes.t. This turns out > not to be an issue with attributes, but rather exceptions. The test does: > > my $c = Counter.new(); > try { > $c.x > } > ok($!, 'n

Re: time op inconsistent on Win32

2008-08-07 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonathan Worthington wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I've just been looking at the time op, and what it returns is somewhat >> platform specific. >> >> * On Win32, it's the number of seconds since January 1, 1601 > > If I remember co

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

2008-08-10 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 3:50 PM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat Aug 09 10:31:37 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Saturday 09 August 2008 06:33:46 James Keenan via RT wrote: >> >> > > What purpose remains, then, for either tools/dev/ops_renum.mak or >> my >> > > alternati

Re: [perl #57942] [BUG] Smolder failure [linelength, compilers/pirc]

2008-08-15 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Geoffrey Broadwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:07:46 -0700 > > . . . > > It seems then that we have two remaining options: > > 1. Don't run codingstd as part of smolder. > > 2. Differe

Re: unified languages-test

2008-08-18 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Michael Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Will Coleda wrote: >> >>> The eventual goal of this cleanup is to get these tests running via >>> smolder to give core developers more feedback on

Re: unified languages-test

2008-08-18 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:50 PM, jerry gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Mich

Re: Parrot 0.7.0 "Severe Macaw" - permissions

2008-08-19 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Jesse Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [List-CC changed] > > On Aug 19, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Reini Urban wrote: > >> Bob Rogers schrieb: >>> >>> On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.7.0 "Severe >>> Macaw." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is

Re: [CAGE] clean up stray test files

2008-08-20 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running 'make test' now fills the main directory of the repository with junk > files like: > > test_98093.out > test_37653.c > test_98093.ldo > test_97159.c > > The offending tests need to be modified t

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

2008-08-22 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:39 PM, James Keenan via RT >> 4. Parrot::OpsRenumber::renum_op_map_file() has been revised so that it >> will behave properly before Parrot 1.0 -- when deletion of opcodes is >> still permitted --

Re: My Parrot 0.7.0 patches (cygwin)

2008-08-26 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll go now for something like > > #IF(key1|key2&(key3&!key4)) > #IFNOT(key1|key2&(key3&!key4)) > > And probably a shortcut for the negative else clause, like > #IF(cygwin): > #ELSE: > > #+ and #- is lisp so I don't want to d

Re: 57548-CONDITIONED_LINE_enh

2008-08-26 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jerry gay schrieb: >> >> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> I'll go now for something like >>> >>> #IF(key1|

Re: My Parrot 0.7.0 patches (cygwin)

2008-08-26 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jerry gay wrote: >>> >>> #+ and #- is lisp so I don't want to destroy #+ the syntax rules. >>> #IF(): is quite short and easy to read. >>> >> i know it was all

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r30569 - trunk/docs/pdds

2008-09-05 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Klaas-Jan Stol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: >> >>> >>> This must make the following syntax rule illegal: >>> >>> target = null >>> >>> because if "null" is declared

Re: [perl #58610] [ PATCH ] Broken link on parrotcode.org dev page - list item "Parrot Testing Status"

2008-09-05 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:59 AM, via RT Ronald Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Ronald Schmidt > # Please include the string: [perl #58610] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58610 > >

Re: [perl #39117] [TODO] Using v?snprintf/strlcpy/strlcat when useful

2008-09-07 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Christoph Otto via RT wrote: > >> On Wed May 10 11:01:34 2006, stmpeters wrote: >> > >> > I'm taking a look at it. I should have something working this evening >> > for the configs. Adding the HAS_BLAH

Re: [perl #56382] [RFC] Making Test::Harness 3 available without including it in core parrot.

2008-09-07 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Will Coleda via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu Jun 26 11:01:00 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> chromatic wrote: >> >> > T::H 3 is only a requirement for people who want to type 'make >> smolder' (and >> > eventually I hope 'make smoke'), so probing for it w

Re: Why Some MMD Tests Fail

2008-09-08 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a) Do abstract base classes as currently implemented in Parrot serve any > useful purpose? If not, eliminate them. > can they be replaced by roles? ~jerry

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

2008-09-11 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 4:47 PM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to see if we can move this ticket toward resolution. I think > that it has remained unresolved for so long because the original post > originally called for two steps: (a) removal from Configure.pl of > c

Re: [perl #58742] [TODO] Marker for RTs re SmartLinks

2008-09-16 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:14 AM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue Sep 16 00:08:29 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Monday 15 September 2008 20:06:11 James Keenan via RT wrote: >> >> > See patch attached. The patch eliminates smartlink-related code from >> > Parrot, but d

Re: [perl #58934] [CAGE] 'make fulltest' says "PASS" at the end, although some tests failed

2008-09-16 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:27 PM, via RT Moritz Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Moritz Lenz > # Please include the string: [perl #58934] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58934 > > > >

Re: [perl #58866] calling a PIR sub with 206 params segfaults parrot

2008-09-17 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Christoph Otto via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue Sep 16 15:00:24 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Tuesday 16 September 2008 14:47:58 NotFound wrote: >> >> > > It certainly shouldn't segfault. But, the question is: why does it >> > > segfault at 206 par

Re: [svn:parrot] r31049 - in trunk: include/parrot languages/perl6/src/builtins languages/perl6/src/parser languages/perl6/t

2008-09-18 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Geoffrey Broadwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 07:34 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >> > "Aggregating coroutine" and "aggregating yield" aren't nearly as zippy >> > as 'gather' and 'take', but they're more meaningful to a broader >> > audien

Re: [svn:parrot] r31049 - in trunk: include/parrot languages/perl6/src/builtins languages/perl6/src/parser languages/perl6/t

2008-09-18 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:06:44AM -0700, jerry gay wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Geoffrey Broadwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 0

Re: [svn:parrot] r31385 - trunk/docs/book

2008-09-24 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:31 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 24 September 2008 11:22:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Modified: >>trunk/docs/book/ch04_pir_subroutines.pod >>trunk/docs/book/ch09_hlls.pod >> >> Log: >> [Book] Add some basic info about VTables and HLL n

Re: [perl #59374] [BUG] pmc2c produces incorrect code for RETURN(INTVAL -1)

2008-09-26 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Patrick R. Michaud (via RT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud > # Please include the string: [perl #59374] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?i

Re: [perl #59658] Build failure in src/pmc/float.c -- non-constant intiializer

2008-10-07 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:00 PM, via RT Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty > # Please include the string: [perl #59658] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=59658 >

Re: [svn:parrot] r31791 - trunk/t/pmc

2008-10-08 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 01:48:17PM -0700, chromatic wrote: > >> In general, filesystems are case-insensitive, not platforms. I believe Mac >> OS >> X's Hateful File System Plus is one offender, though you can use UFS inst

Re: [perl #59658] Build failure in src/pmc/float.c -- non-constant intiializer

2008-10-14 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Allison Randal via RT wrote: > > > jerry gay wrote: > > > > > > .\src\pmc\float.c(3340) : warning C4204: nonstandard extension used > > > : non-cons

Re: [perl #48549] [DEPRECATED] [PDD19] Let .namespace (no args) have empty brackets

2008-10-16 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Andrew Whitworth via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed Jul 30 11:57:39 2008, coke wrote: >> PDD19 lists this as deprecated now, changing from an [RFC] to >> [DEPRECATED], re-opening from stalled. > > The big hangup for this ticket is that various parts of PCT

Re: [perl #36249] [TODO] Document policy on breakage, er, backward compatibility.

2008-10-16 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Andrew Whitworth via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat Jun 11 13:08:49 2005, chip wrote: >> Short version: Up through version 0.8 or so, we promise to break >> everything constantly (but not until we have a good reason). After >> that, we will establish versi

Re: [perl #59940] [patch] convert perl tests to parrot

2008-10-18 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Mark Grimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The attached patch now includes the pir/pasm_error_output* tests in > pir. I have also added t/pmc/complex.t. Couple of issues: > > 1) I am not sure how to deal with pcc_sub's so I put them into > t/pmc/objects-pcc_sub.t > 2)

Re: Fw: Running Perl 6 Tests

2008-10-20 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would help if I sent this to the correct mailing list. Oops. > > Cheers, > Ovid > > --- On Mon, 20/10/08, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've been doing some work integrating Perl 6 into vim >> and now I'm trying to figure

Re: [perl #48549] [DEPRECATED] [PDD19] Let .namespace (no args) have empty brackets

2008-10-20 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:49 AM, jerry gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Andrew Whitworth via RT > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed Jul 30 11:57:39 2008, coke wrote: >>> PDD19 lists this as deprecated now, changing from an [RFC

Re: [perl #60070] [BUG] "make opsrenumber" causes build to fail

2008-10-22 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Patrick R. Michaud (via RT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud > # Please include the string: [perl #60070] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?

Re: [perl #60098] [BUG] "load_bytecode" couldn't find file 'P6object.pbc'

2008-10-24 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:49 AM, via RT Canol Gökel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Canol Gökel > # Please include the string: [perl #60098] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60098 > > > >

Re: [perl #60566] Broken link to Debian packages

2008-11-16 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 23:37, via RT Matt Kraai < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Matt Kraai > # Please include the string: [perl #60566] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60566 > > > > Ho

Re: [perl #60568] Re: Broken link to Debian packages

2008-11-16 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 23:39, via RT Matt Kraai < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Matt Kraai > # Please include the string: [perl #60568] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60568 > > > > On

Re: [perl #60624] [DEPRECATED] PARROT_API changes to PARROT_EXPORT

2008-11-18 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 05:16, Andrew Whitworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:50 PM, via RT Jerry Gay > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # New Ticket Created by Jerry Gay > > # Please include the string: [perl #60624] > > # in the subje

Re: [perl #57492] [CAGE] Explore possible speedups of t/configure/*.t tests

2008-11-23 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 13:26, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon Sep 08 18:43:49 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Tue Aug 19 19:28:43 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > A net total of 5 t/configure/*.t files were eliminated tonight as part >> > of r30368 (RT 57780). >> >>

Re: [perl #62010] [PATCH] fix PARROT_EXPORT visibility=default for gcc other than 4.x

2009-01-08 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 15:42, Mark Glines wrote: > donald.hun...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I was pretty averse to adding an additional configure step myself. The >> problem is that warnings.pm checks specifically for supported compiler flags >> and I didn't want to include other things there. The bug

Re: [svn:parrot] r36057 - in trunk: . config/auto config/auto/format config/gen/config_h include/parrot src t/compilers/imcc/syn t/op

2009-01-27 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:58, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:24:46AM -0800, parti...@cvs.perl.org wrote: > >> -gen_sprintf_call(tc, &info, ch); >> -ts = cstr2pstr(tc); >> +/* check for Inf and

Re: [perl #59790] t/stm/basic_mt.t #4 hangs on several platforms

2009-01-31 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 16:06, James Keenan via RT wrote: > The t/stm/*.t tests have gone away (when or whence I do not know), so I > propose we close this ticket. Any objections? > the STM subsystem has been removed. close the ticket, and all other STM-related tickets. ~jerry

Re: [perl #62974] Signed-zero tests failing on Windows XP

2009-02-01 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 13:07, Will Coleda wrote: > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:29 PM, via RT Alan Rocker > wrote: >> # New Ticket Created by Alan Rocker >> # Please include the string: [perl #62974] >> # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. >> # http://rt.perl.org/rt

Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2009-02-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 08:26, Andrew Whitworth via RT wrote: > 1) Are we going to be relying on libraries to handle our BigInt/BigNum > implementations, or are we intending to roll our own? we can't rely on external libraries, whether for bignum, unicode, gc, or anything else. we can detect and u

Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2009-02-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 08:45, Andrew Whitworth via RT wrote: > On Thu Feb 05 08:40:47 2009, particle wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 08:26, Andrew Whitworth via RT >> wrote: >> > 1) Are we going to be relying on libraries to handle our BigInt/BigNum >> > implementations, or are we intending to r

Re: [perl #37993] [BUG] optimized parrot behaves differently than non-optimized (win32-msvc)

2009-02-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:44, Reini Urban via RT wrote: > On Thu Jan 29 06:05:13 2009, Whiteknight wrote: >> On Wed Dec 24 05:39:54 2008, Whiteknight wrote: >> > On Tue Dec 23 19:02:17 2008, jk...@verizon.net wrote: >> > > On Sat Jun 14 17:15:32 2008, jk...@verizon.net wrote: >> > > > Would it be

Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2009-02-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:23, Will Coleda wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:12 PM, chromatic wrote: >> On Thursday 05 February 2009 08:57:18 jerry gay wrote: >> >>> we will roll our own bignum, and give users the ability to use gmp or >>> another external libr

Re: [perl #39714] [TODO] Refactor IMCC to remove static globals

2009-02-12 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 15:53, Will Coleda wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:09 PM, kjstol wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Will Coleda via RT < >> parrotbug-follo...@parrotcode.org> wrote: >> >>> On Tue Jul 04 19:30:44 2006, autri...@gmail.com wrote: >>> > IMCC currently relies on a l

Re: [perl #39856] TODO: Produce Single PBC from Multiple PIR Files with -o

2006-08-09 Thread jerry gay
On 8/9/06, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chip Salzenberg wrote: >> pbc_merge doesn't allow multiple :load routines. > > That's a bug, Shirley. Currently it's a feature. Only one :load routine is allowed per PIR file, and pbc_merge basically just packs all the compiled code together.

designing a test suite for multiple implementations

2006-08-11 Thread jerry gay
recently, perl 6 development has taken the form of a multi-method dispatch. that is, multiple implementations are under active development. this includes pugs (in haskell,) v6 (in perl5,) v6-Compiler (in perl6,) and perl6 (on parrot.) hopefully, each of these returns the same result, a working[1]

Re: designing a test suite for multiple implementations (repository thread)

2006-08-14 Thread jerry gay
[dropped perl-qa and p6l from this thread, as it's repo-related, and not directly related to those lists] On 8/12/06, Audrey Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 在 2006/8/12 上午 3:01 時,jerry gay 寫到: > for "managed," i have a few ideas. currently, the suite lives in the >

Re: [PROPOSED PATCH] Add Parrot::Embed to Repository

2006-08-16 Thread jerry gay
On 8/15/06, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's a proposed patch that seems to work okay for me on Linux. It's not great or beautiful, mostly because of the Makefile hackery. It's a starting point though. I suspect Windows might complain. i'll happily test, but i can't apply it, as i

Re: [PROPOSED PATCH] Add Parrot::Embed to Repository

2006-08-16 Thread jerry gay
On 8/16/06, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 16 August 2006 08:57, jerry gay wrote: > i'll happily test, but i can't apply it, as it seems not to be in the > format my patch util expects. did you use C? i don't see the > familiar "Index: &

Re: [PROPOSED PATCH] Add Parrot::Embed to Repository

2006-08-16 Thread jerry gay
On 8/15/06, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's a proposed patch that seems to work okay for me on Linux. It's not great or beautiful, mostly because of the Makefile hackery. It's a starting point though. I suspect Windows might complain. windows indeed complains. not only about miss

Re: [perl #40178] None Must Die

2006-08-17 Thread jerry gay
On 8/17/06, Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How about a 'default' opcode that provides a value instead of null? It would work for strings and PMCs. Something like: $S0 = default hsh['key'], '' or $P0 = new .Undef ... $P1 = default hsh['key1'], $P0 $P1 = d

Re: [perl #40178] None Must Die

2006-08-17 Thread jerry gay
On 8/17/06, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There might be a cognitive dissonance here with "err", since C in pasm/pir is testing for null, while C in perl6 tests for definedness. While it doesn't much matter for strings in the examples above, it might make a difference for $

Re: End the Hollerith Tyranny? (linelength.t)

2006-08-21 Thread jerry gay
On 8/21/06, Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My preference: soft limit 80 - keep lines shorter, if it's easy hard limit ~100 - you SHALL not exceed it coding standards are quite helpful, but cannot be applied absolutely. there are good reasons why a line of code might

Re: String.to_int() vs. opcode

2006-08-25 Thread jerry gay
On 8/25/06, Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What about 'say'? It's a method, not an opcode, and: say $S0 works just fine. but C does *not* work. i find that annoying. either make the syntax for methods different than ops (eg C<$S0.say()>) or make C an opcode, or dodge the syntax issue

Re: Error Recovery in Parrot

2006-09-02 Thread jerry gay
On 9/2/06, Alberto Simões <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alberto Simões wrote: > Hi > > I created a ticket in RT two days ago (well, one day ago) and still > waiting for it to be created, so, forget RT and here it goes. One more day, and no ticket yet. I wonder what is happening. i've forwarded a

Re: [perl #40279] [CAGE] C coding standards coda.

2006-09-05 Thread jerry gay
On 9/5/06, via RT Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From the recently updated pdd07: C source files, and files largely consisting of C (e.g. yacc, lex, PMC, and opcode source files), must end with this block: /* * Local variables: * c-file-style: "parrot" * End: * vim: expandtab

Re: [perl #40361] [PATCH] #40278 [CAGE] perl coding standards coda. (cont.)

2006-09-19 Thread jerry gay
On 9/19/06, via RT Paul Cochrane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # New Ticket Created by "Paul Cochrane" # Please include the string: [perl #40361] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=40361 > This is a patch of more Pe

Re: [perl #40361] [PATCH] #40278 [CAGE] perl coding standards coda. (cont.)

2006-09-19 Thread jerry gay
On 9/19/06, Paul Cochrane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > firstly, line endings are unrelated to this effort and should be a > separate patch. that's no biggie, and alone wouldn't stop me from > applying. I can do that in a separate patch if you want. That's not a major problem, and probably a good

Re: [perl #40361] [PATCH] #40278 [CAGE] perl coding standards coda. (cont.)

2006-09-19 Thread jerry gay
On 9/19/06, Paul Cochrane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is going to sound rather silly, but... how does one enter a new ticket to RT? I've got an account, but can't see anywhere on rt.perl.org where one can add a new ticket. There's also no help link I can go to to work out what to do. Shou

Re: [perl #40361] [PATCH] #40278 [CAGE] perl coding standards coda. (cont.)

2006-09-19 Thread jerry gay
On 9/19/06, Paul Cochrane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jerry, > all new rt tickets are created via parrotbug. it may not be sexy, but > it's what we've got :-) I'm not 100% sure if it worked, as parrotbug gave this warning: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./parrotbug

#parrotsketch logs: 19SEP06

2006-09-19 Thread jerry gay
http://www.parrotcode.org/misc/parrotsketch-logs/irclog.parrotsketch-200609/irclog.parrotsketch.20060918 or, for the browser- or email-client- newline-challenged: http://xrl.us/rs3n enjoy. ~jerry

Re: [perl #40364] [PATCH] line endings of perl .t test files

2006-09-20 Thread jerry gay
On 9/19/06, via RT Paul Cochrane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=40364 > This patch changes the line endings of the files listed below from dos to unix. thanks, applied by bernhard, r14667. ~jerry

Re: [PATCH] as2c.pl C-file coda fix

2006-09-20 Thread jerry gay
On 9/20/06, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 20 September 2006 09:53, Jerry Gay via RT wrote: > thanks, applied as r14673, with a minor fix: > > -$print_coda(); > +&print_coda(); I wouldn't mind seeing the '&' go away entirely. It'

Re: [perl #40394] [PATCH] Added a test for multiple codas to t/codingstd/code_coda.t

2006-09-22 Thread jerry gay
On 9/21/06, via RT Paul Cochrane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This patch gets code_coda.t to test for multiply-defined codas (for those cases when a file append or automated tool adds a coda unnecessarily). I have a feeling it's not pretty code, but my perl foo is only slowly improving. great id

Re: FYI improved pugs smokes

2006-09-25 Thread jerry gay
On 9/25/06, Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi folks, Read the journal http://pugs.blogs.com/pugs/2006/09/check_smoke_res.html Follow the link: http://m19s28.vlinux.de/cgi-bin/pugs-smokeserv.pl? Click at a recent entry with a SYN link Then click on "02 Syntax" Then on e.g.: - Show

Re: What are the final words on GMP, BigNums and *BooleanArrays ?????????????

2006-10-09 Thread jerry gay
On 10/9/06, Karl Forner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, It's not that easy to contribute to parrot development. I got into that by picking a TODO task about *BooleanArrays, that seemed appropriate for a Parrot newbie that knows a bit about algorithmics and Data structures. thank you for your en

Re: Parrot Configure error

2006-10-09 Thread jerry gay
On 10/9/06, Paul Cochrane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, In r14862, Configure.pl throws an error when processing the Manifest. The error is: Checking MANIFEST...No such file: ext/Parrot-Embed/Embed.xs Ack, some files were missing! I can't continue running without everything here. Please

Re: [perl #40503] [PATCH] Removal of .imc filename change paragraph

2006-10-11 Thread jerry gay
On 10/11/06, via RT Paul Cochrane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=40503 > This patch removes the paragraph in DEPRECATED.pod mentioning that the .imc file extension is deprecated since there are no longer any .imc files in Parrot (having all been turned

Re: Fwd: [perl #40508] [PATCH] Removal of C++ comments in pmc files

2006-10-11 Thread jerry gay
On 10/11/06, Jonathan Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What's a "C++ comment"? If you mean //...\n comments, those are legal > in ANSI-99 C Parrot is using ANSI-98 C, I believe. And //\N+\n comments are not legal in that. jonathan ment C89 of course. some compi

Re: [perl #40503] [PATCH] Removal of .imc filename change paragraph

2006-10-11 Thread jerry gay
On 10/11/06, Paul Cochrane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm not 100% sure this is the right thing to do, either. the most > recent version of "perl 6 and parrot essentials" still makes reference > to '.imc' files. with this paragraph in deprecated.pod, there's > something to grep for that might h

Re: [perl #40483] [PATCH] removal of cuddled else's in C source

2006-10-11 Thread jerry gay
On 10/11/06, Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mi. 11. Okt. 2006, 08:10:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, I got exacly the same output from r14895. Actually, this patch > was already applied by Bernhard in r14870, which explains why the > effected files list looks dif

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

2006-10-16 Thread jerry gay
On 10/16/06, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 16 October 2006 02:00, Paul Cochrane wrote: > This patch adds a test to the coding standards which checks for space > or tab characters after a curly brace when the curly is the last > printable character on the line. The pumpking hasn

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

2006-10-16 Thread jerry gay
On 10/16/06, jerry gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i see no reason to keep this specific to curlies. i hate all useless trailing whitespace equally :) for vim users, these settings may help find trailing spaces and leading tabs: set list set listchars=trail:-,tab:\.\ note in this cas

Re: [perl #40559] AutoReply: $FindBin::Bin has a trailing / in scripts on Perl 5.8.3

2006-10-17 Thread jerry gay
looks like a valid problem, and a valid solution... commit away! ~jerry On 10/17/06, Kevin Tew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Used Cwd::abs_path like FindBin in perl 5.8.6 does. defaults.pm |3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: config/init/defaults.pm =

Re: Coding Standard Questions

2006-10-17 Thread jerry gay
On 10/17/06, Andy Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 17, 2006, at 3:33 PM, Kevin Tew wrote: >if (!info->thaw_result) info->thaw_result = pmc; >else *info->thaw_ptr = pmc; No, definitely not. if ( foo ) { bar(); } else { bat(); } if

Re: [perl #40593] [CAGE] make t/codingstd/linelength.t output look like other coding standard tests

2006-10-25 Thread jerry gay
On 10/24/06, Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not all tests follow the "one test reporting on many files" paradigm: see t/codingstd/perlcritic.t FWIW,in general, I prefer the perlcritic method. as i just wrote in a new ticket for perl coding standard test reformatting... coding standard

Re: [perl #40596] [CAGE] modify perl coding standard test format

2006-10-25 Thread jerry gay
On 10/25/06, Chris Dolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 25, 2006, at 1:24 PM, Jerry Gay (via RT) wrote: > modify perl coding standard test format to match the c tests--one test > per standard, rather than one test per file. > > coding standard tests are designed to test ma

Re: SVN tips in wranglers.pod

2006-11-08 Thread jerry gay
On 11/7/06, Paul Cochrane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Bernhard! Added to the list. Paul > When the commit is associated with a ticket in RT, I usually copy&paste the > ticket header. e.g. > > #39197: [CAGE] lib/Parrot/Test.pm ignores core dumps failures!CU, > > Bernhard paul~ i to

Re: [perl #40823] Win32 vs. the world - length for sprintf('%e') - what's right?

2006-11-13 Thread jerry gay
On 11/13/06, SADAHIRO Tomoyuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:34:55 -0800, Chip Salzenberg (via RT) wrote > because the Perl sprintf test suite seems to think that the right value > for sprintf('%e',1) is "1e+00", but Win32 seems to return "1e+000" (note > the extra digit in t

Re: [perl #41064] [BUG]: Not-so-new 'make' failures on Darwin

2006-12-11 Thread jerry gay
On 12/10/06, James E Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: James E Keenan wrote: And now here's what I got with perl Configure.pl (i.e., no options) vi Makefile (to eliminate -bundle from LD_LOAD_FLAGS) make Failure at this point has now become frequently observed. [parrot] 631 $ perl Configure

Re: [perl #40816] open opcode creates file if it doesn't exist

2006-12-18 Thread jerry gay
On 12/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat Nov 11 11:53:27 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not sure if this is a bug or not, but I noticed that the open opcode > creates its argument if the desired file doesn't exist. > There are two variants of the open opcode: this

Re: More Undef vs. Null...

2006-12-21 Thread jerry gay
On 12/20/06, Jonathan Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2006 05:59 schrieb Will Coleda: > >> Are Hash and Array supposed to have different results on unset keys? >> > > The .Undefs returned by Arrays are IMHO and unfortunate leftover of he e

Re: [perl #41158] [BUG] Here Docs in test C cause t/op/cmp-nonbranch.t abnormal exit

2007-01-02 Thread jerry gay
On 12/31/06, via RT Lee Duhem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # New Ticket Created by "Lee Duhem" # Please include the string: [perl #41158] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41158 > The here docs in test C cause t/

Re: [NEW]: README for t/tools/pmc2cutils/

2007-01-04 Thread jerry gay
On 12/30/06, James Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Following a suggestion made earlier today by Coke, I am submitting this file for t/tools/pmc2utils/. thanks, applied as r16409. ~jerry

Re: [perl #41198] [TODO] tools/dev/mk_manifest_and_skip.pl should be aware of MANIFEST.generated

2007-01-07 Thread jerry gay
On 1/7/07, via RT Bernhard Schmalhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # New Ticket Created by Bernhard Schmalhofer # Please include the string: [perl #41198] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41198 > Hi, the files

Re: [perl #40905] [CAGE] coding standards hammer too big

2007-01-08 Thread jerry gay
On 1/8/07, Paul Cochrane via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu Nov 16 05:00:35 2006, coke wrote: > Any files that are copied from somewhere else should be immune from > our coding standards. > > This includes items in > > lib/Parse/RecDescent.pm, which is from CPAN, or > > languages/tcl/librar

Parrot Bug Day -- 13 January 2007

2007-01-10 Thread jerry gay
Fellow birders~ On Saturday, 13 January, 2007, please join us on IRC in #parrot (irc.perl.org) to work on closing out as many RT (https://rt.perl.org/rt3/) tickets as possible in the parrot queue. This will help us get ready for the next release of parrot 0.4.8, scheduled for Tuesday 16 January 2

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