Patrick:
- lots more stuff with PGE
- sent out a message on Friday
- now support for commit operator, Unicode characters (as far as Parrot
can), hex, octal, newline, conjunctions, subrules with arguments,
documented public interface
- it helps that particle has created so many tests
- so have the Tcl guys
- beyond that, just catching up with Chip's draft design documents
- going to do parser things next
Allison:
- working on the tree grammar stuff
- have it checked into my local mirror
- haven't merged it back into mainline yet
- Parrot has some extraneous requirements on new files
- converting some of my little test scripts to test files
- I couldn't run tests until I added libraries into Parrot repository
- Patrick, what's your advice on where to put the test files?
- PGE keeps the test files in the Parrot hierarchy
- for the language, I want the tests in the languages/ directory
Patrick:
- PGE's tests went in the Parrot thing because of Dan's advice
- PGE is a part of Parrot
- I separated them out as p6rules tests
- there are several different syntaxes to do pattern matching
- Perl 5 rules, for example
- in this case, if we consider TGE as a part of Parrot, then it goes in
the Parrot repository
- or sensibly a subdirectory in compilers/ subdirectory
Allison:
- I'll do that for now
- it's not a big deal to move them later
Larry:
- some overhead with work and family
- otherwise hanging out on p6l and p6c
- thinking about design issues for roles and things
- thinking about some of Patrick's regexp issues too
- actually writing a few Perl 6 programs to see if it feels right
- running into interesting Pugs bugs there
- also playing with attribute grammar stuff and thinking about tree
transformation syntax
Jesse:
- did Autrijus send out the doc that he and Liz have started to put
together about concurrency?
Larry:
- I didn't see it
Jesse:
- I encouraged them to show it to people who've done stuff in Perl 5
- then make it public
- how's the response to licensing stuff been, Allison?
Allison:
- just a handful of responses
- most questions were from the Perl 5 cabal about the amount of time
required to turn in their agreements
- they wanted more than a week
- it'll be more like six months
Jesse:
- it should last through at least a conference season for in person
haranguing
Patrick:
- I thought it looked clear and well-defined
- I wish other open source licenses were as clear as this one
Jesse:
- the only one that blew me away was Microsoft's clear and simple group of
licenses
Larry:
- I've been trying to recompile Pugs
- I get a weird message from GHC about unrecognized "-i" flags
- GHC 6.4.1
- one of these years I'll have to start submitting some tests myself
Jesse:
- have you been submitting bug reports?
Larry:
- I mentioned one on the list
- I don't know what my commit procedure would be
- I haven't taken anyone up on a commit bit
Jesse:
- I can make sure that you get relevant documentation
- that'll make the Pugs crowd very happy
Patrick:
- I'm still eager for S05 to show up
Jesse:
- Damian had taken that for comments?
Patrick:
- yes
- I'm getting enough questions from people that it'd be nice to have a
document point to
Jesse:
- is there any reason not to put a big warning on top of the last draft
and check it in?
Patrick:
- I have no problem with that
- the only thing that may change is the whitespace flags
- we can put a notice around that
- other than that, it looked good
Larry:
- anything new is good
Patrick:
- Damian has the latest draft
Larry:
- what's the status of the S29 draft?
Patrick:
- there's one in the Pugs repository
- I could review it and pass it around
Larry:
- at some point we should do it
Patrick:
- I'll ask the Pugs folks about it
- we can look at it
Jesse:
- they have a couple of Synopses there waiting for approval
- Autrijus, Jarkko, and Jos have started an updated CPAN synopsis
