The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 23 January 2008. Larry, Allison, Patrick, Jerry, Will, Jesse, Nicholas, and chromatic attended.
Larry:
- just fudging things
- developing the
fudge preprocessor and making sure it's in the right place such that it's usable by different implementations
- hopefully in a platform-independent fashion
- today I just added another declaration to set the test count of the following construct
- been thinking about that for quite a while
- the usual spec damage
- things have been pretty hectic at work
- going to Japan in May for YAPC::Asia
Allison:
Jesse:
Larry:
- if you count the hackathon
Allison:
- launched the GC PDD
- had some helpful comments from chromatic
- back to implementing the PMC PDD
- the two big things left are roles and role composition and the automatic generation of the core PMC structs
- aside from that it's a lot of small cleanups
- we're also having interesting linking problems on Mac OS X
- GCC on Mac OS X has different assumptions about when to add libraries to the static lib
- you must explicitly include a library
- I finally found some documentation on why we have this difference between Linux GCC and Apple's GCC
c:
Allison:
- I figured out how to make it pass
- I haven't figured out how to put the .o files into
pbc_to_exe
- I think they're not getting stored in the config library
- that's what it needs to know to get
pbc_to_exe to work on the Mac
Jerry:
- working to switch the name "Perl 6" to "Rakudo" in the source and documentation
- made fudge work with Rakudo and am adding directives
- there's a lot more work to do there
- added more tests to Rakudo's
spectest make target
- it's a lot noisier
- but it will hopefully inspire us to clean that up
- applied a bunch of patches from various contributors
- we've had three or four contributors over the past week, which is great to see
- working on some Perl 6 rule syntax for PGE
- also working on a grammar for serialized PAST
- should let us read PAST in from the same or different implementations
- finally trying to get more Rakudo tests passing
Patrick:
- returned to Perl things over the weekend
- mostly helping others: answering questions, giving guidance
- not a lot of actual coding besides switching APL to use PCT instead of the old tools
- didn't feel like diving into Rakudo right away
- plan to write some reports this week, especially the Mozilla Foundation report
- then I'll review recent commits, especially to Rakudo
- I'll make comments on those
- will work on some of the infrastructure things
- improve the Parrot integration
- switch to Parrot's HLL features, especially its own namespace
- also need to do more review of tests and test suite things
Will:
- trying to keep an eye on the RT queue and apply some patches
- we're still getting patches for LOLCODE
- sjansen has patched that, and he's patching PCT as well
- seems like that's having the effect we hoped
- starting to think about next month's release
- we're shooting for 0.6.0
- is the Mac OS X issue just for 10.5?
Allison:
Will:
- hmm
- I'll talk to you more offline then
c:
- applied several patches
- fixed a couple of nasty bugs
- Andy and I are working on cleaning up Valgrind output
- fixing some warnings, hopefully they'll catch some dodgy memory uses which cause segfaults on other platforms
- oh, and deleted a big chunk of old object code
- plan to work on the PMC PDD plans; Allison gave me a nice list
Patrick:
make test in NQP regularly gets failures for me- looks like GC problems
- running with
-G cleans that up
- it's 32-bit Intel on Ubuntu
- seems consistent
- four tests fail regularly
- you should be able to reproduce it
c:
- okay, I'll poke at those and see what I can find
Nicholas:
Patrick:
- I've been communicating with him
- I get the impression he's busy, but he's around some
