The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 15 April 2009. Allison, Will, Nicholas, and chromatic attended.
Allison:
- finished converting Pynie to support Python 3.0
- checked in a big batch of changes to the Parrot book
- added a
-X command line option to Parrot to add search paths for dynamic extensions
- still working on the PIR calling conventions
- NCI is more of a bog than the straight PIR stuff was
- it's a matter of cleaning up every single place that calls into a PCCMETHOD
- gradually working my way through those
- did more work on the Parrot Developer's Guide book cover
c:
- moving more Parrot code into the proper subdirectories
- cleaning up the headers
- will merge in what I have by mid-day Saturday
- probably won't change any function names; just their locations
Nicholas:
- happy to see that Dave Mitchell is converging on merging blead to 5.10.1
Will:
- cleaning the cage
- trying to enable more warnings and still be clean
- my biggest current blocker is the language switch to living out of the repository
- can't build Partcl right now with the 1.0 release
- I don't see a way yet to make it work
- will try to get it working with 1.1 this weekend
Allison:
- do you want it to build off of only an installed Parrot
- or also with an installed Parrot?
Will:
- primarily want to work off of an installed release of Parrot
- a monthly release is fine
- no problem lagging on features
- I could build my own copy from HEAD
- it can't build dynops because the link information is not present in the public
parrot_config
- it relies on the build directory, which is wrong
- heard some talk recently that was rather incorrect on our current status
- we could use someone doing marketing to keep our message up to date
- it's changed some in the past eight years
- but maybe we need a call for a volunteer to keep our information public and current
Allison:
- we need to work more on communicating what we're doing
- I was amazed at how much more response we had from writing a press release and Twittering our 1.0 release
Will:
- not suggesting any spin
- I just want to get more facts out there
- I worked on this with the "This Week in Perl 6" message
- that sucks from an implementation standpoint
- I'll try to write more prose for the next time
