The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 02 July 2008. Allison, Will, Jerry, Patrick, and chromatic attended.
Allison:
- still working on the pdd25cx branch
- taking way too long — five remaining test files
- I'm going to have zero tolerance for failing tests, even on a branch
- I broke my natural tendency for that and it's biting me
- I'll be traveling a lot for the next couple of weeks
- hope to get one or two tests passing tomorrow
- two of the failures are PGE, which probably means that no language built on PGE works now, depending on where the test failures apply
Will:
- Tcl still fails a ton of tests on the branch now
- that's not far off the mark
Jerry:
- do you know the root causes?
Allison:
- not in PGE
- but the one I'm working on now is a fundamental problem
- exception handlers used to be scoped
- I shifted them over to global in the first stage
- now I'm shifting them over to the context, so they'll behave like the old system
- the old system used a global stack, which worked badly with CPS
- I hope that this change will fix a bunch of the PGE tests
Jerry:
- Summer of Code is progressing nicely
- we're coming up on midterms now
- everyone seems right on track for the Perl 6 and Parrot projects
- the students are all engaged in their work and the community
- I have high hopes that they'll continue to be around after the summer
- Patrick and I need to coordinate our OSCON talk
- have only had time for administration and question answering
- don't know what my availability will be after next week, but I'll do my best
Patrick:
- this year's Summer of Code is far more productive than previous years, from the Perl 6 and Parrot perspective
- the work that they've done will stick around
- it's really, really helping out
- Rakudo now passes 1365 tests out of the spec repository — 422 over last week
- increase of 75 over this morning
- probably another 50 or so, after the lexical issue is now resolved
- I can fix
$_ and implicit method calls
- I think that there are a lot of tests that use those; keep noticing some that aren't passing
- it's been a banner week for adding new tests passes
- some of it is improvements in Rakudo
- moritz and auzon are also doing a great job in refactoring the tests, and making sure Rakudo passes them
- every so often they find a Rakudo bug, we patch it, and we have more passing tests
- Jonathan and chromatic managed to fix lexical handling over the past week
- that removes a big blocker for me
- I cleaned up part of PCT
- about to clean up part of Rakudo
- we should get better code generation out of that
- plan to refactor the builtins to become part of the
Any class
- will fix
$_, $!, and $/ to work correctly
- will refactor parameter passing and handling
- wrote my third progress report for the Mozilla grant
- the final report will come out around the time of OSCON
c:
- fixed some bugs
- trying to remove as many blockers for Rakudo and other Parrot languages
- continuing to work with Andrew to make sure his new GC branch compiles and runs and passes all tests
Jerry:
- he's at 700 failures out of 7700 now right?
c:
- it didn't even compile a few nights ago
- so he's making good progress
Will:
- trying to rip out old stuff from Parrot
- added a :deprecated flag for ops
- if you run Parrot with warnings, it'll warn in almost every program
- started a branch to remove built-in method handling
- magical non-ops dispatch to class methods on PMCs
- we're trying to get rid of the old object system
- the only one we're really using right now is
say anyway
- we don't have to worry about having too many opcodes right now anyway
- removed a lot of custom code for our Perl::Critic configuration
- increased our dependencies, decreased custom code
- fixed a bug for subclassing
Float
- we have a whole class of bugs where when you subclass a PMC, the PMC assumes you have the same C type
- we need someone to do a review on all of that
- the RT #48014 is a good place to comment on how to migrate from using the PMC union to PMC attributes
Allison:
- are we doing any hackathoning after OSCON?
Patrick:
- I have Saturday open, so we can do that
Jerry:
Allison:
- Larry left Saturday and Sunday open
Patrick:
- I can move my flight; I have a place to stay on Saturday night too
Allison:
- if it's just you and Larry, that might be valuable too
- that's five or six of us
- where's a good location?
Patrick:
- it depends on who's coming
- will Damian make it?
- there could easy be six or seven of us
Allison:
- I'll look into spaces
- let's say Saturday for sure, but Sunday is possible
c:
- and Friday afternoon and evening
Jerry:
- I'm meeting with Hank at Microsoft's open source labs
- he's offered some resources, right?
Allison:
- smoke testing
- some Windows licenses
Jerry:
- now that we're very close to having Smolder work
- (today or tomorrow)
- just requires an upgrade to TAP::Harness 3
- we could make this happen
- I'll basically follow up and make things happen
Allison:
- they want something automatable, so they don't have to think about it
- it'll update once a week or whenever, run the tests, and submit a report
