The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 01 November 2006. The attendees were Larry, Damian, Allison, Jesse, Nicholas, and chromatic. Here are the minutes.
Larry:
- taking it really easy
- for the same reasons that I'm not going to Brazil
- making sure I'm here to answer questions that people have
Allison:
- decided last week to see what it would take to track the Parrot mailing
list
- I look forward to this actually now
- managed to track the mailing list this week
- also released a collection of threading ideas
- not really a first draft
- enough to get people talking about the ideas
- going to house sit this Saturday in San Francisco
Damian:
- things are quiet
- took most of the week off to recover from the last three months
- turns out a week isn't quite enough
Larry:
Damian:
- didn't actually stop working; that would be silly
- did scale things back
- basically caught up on mail and outstanding module issues
- did read through the multi-dispatch document
- need to sit down with examples
- that's the usual way to deal with it
c:
- trying to get things ready for the Hackathon
- did more work to get
Parrot::Embed to build
- have I mentioned that I hate C, and cross-platform C, and cross-platform
relocatable dynamic linking
- have some thoughts on concurrency I'll post
- also keep thinking that Parrot needs a Smalltalky metamodel
- Perl 6 needs such a thing
- many languages can use similar customization
- shoving that down into Parrot will help
Jesse:
- circulating a list of Parrot milestones and subsystems
- trying to get responses; not getting many
- hopefully we'll get a better picture of where things are
