Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-31 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Sean O'Rourke wrote: > -- languages/perl6 should work equally well with 5.005_03 and 5.6.1. s/should/does/ EOT ;-) > /s leo

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-31 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:23 AM -0700 7/31/02, Sean O'Rourke wrote: >On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >> [Pardon the tardiness--digging through old mail] >> At 3:39 PM -0400 7/22/02, Melvin Smith wrote: >> >At 12:00 PM 7/22/2002 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >> >>On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:21:09AM +0100,

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-31 Thread Sean O'Rourke
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > [Pardon the tardiness--digging through old mail] > At 3:39 PM -0400 7/22/02, Melvin Smith wrote: > >At 12:00 PM 7/22/2002 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > >>On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:21:09AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote: > >>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:1

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-31 Thread Dan Sugalski
[Pardon the tardiness--digging through old mail] At 3:39 PM -0400 7/22/02, Melvin Smith wrote: >At 12:00 PM 7/22/2002 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >>On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:21:09AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: >>> > "Sean O'Rourke"

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-30 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: > "Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say that "If you have > > Perl <= 5.005_03, "$a += 3" may fail to parse." I guess we can upgrade > > that to "if you have < 5.6, you

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-22 Thread Melvin Smith
At 12:00 PM 7/22/2002 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:21:09AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: > > > "Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say t

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:21:09AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: > > "Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say that "If you have > > > Perl <= 5.005_03, "$a += 3" may fail

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-22 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Nicholas Clark wrote: > In October 2000 I believed that 5.005 maintenance *is* important for the > acceptance of perl6, and I still do now: Some minutes ago I sent a first patch to Sean, to make it work on 5.005_03. One reason of failure is shown by the following snippet: $ cat t1 #!/usr/bin/

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-22 Thread Graham Barr
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: > "Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say that "If you have > > Perl <= 5.005_03, "$a += 3" may fail to parse." I guess we can upgrade > > that to "if you have < 5.6, you

Re: [PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-22 Thread Sam Vilain
"Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say that "If you have > Perl <= 5.005_03, "$a += 3" may fail to parse." I guess we can upgrade > that to "if you have < 5.6, you lose". I notice that DBI no longer supports Perl releases <5.6. See

[PRE-RELEASE] Release of 0.0.7 tomorrow evening

2002-07-17 Thread Jeff
As the message says. Code freeze tonight at midnight EDT (GMT-0400). I'll be tagging with PRE_REL_0.0.7 then. Features to be included: Perl 6 grammar Partial perl6 compiler Pure-perl assembler Heavily patched and upgraded intermediate language Massive patching in general, cleaned-up PMCs. FORTH