Project updates

Whiteknight on 2009-03-21T17:01:23

A few miscellaneous updates:

1) Matrixy now has an assortment of TAP-related testing functions: plan(), ok(), nok(), is(). We also have functions start_todo() and end_todo() to mark blocks of tests as TODO tests. This morning I went through the test suite and updated most of our tests to use these routines. It isn't a perfect TAP implementation, and not all the expected functionality exists, but it's a start.

Blair has been doing more great work on the various library functions, and I'm much closer now to getting BLAS and LAPACK working like normal on my system (He's on Win32, I'm on Ubuntu-x86_64, so it's been hard to get all the NCI stuff properly working on my system)

Our test suite is really growing by leaps and bounds, which helps to put into perspective how much work we have done (a lot) and how much we still need to do (also a lot). It's a testament to Parrot and PCT that this project is progressing so quickly.

Matrixy

2) The Perl 6 Wikibook is still developing, albeit slower then it had been. Matrixy has been taking up a lot of my attention recently, and I am trying to strike while the iron is hot. I've been adding snippets of material here and there. I'm planning to get a fresh Rakudo release soon to facilitate some testing about concepts that I am not too familiar with yet. I'm hoping to get a good amount of work done this week, and I would appreciate any feedback that people have.

Perl 6 book at Wikibooks