Re: Regarding status of Parrot and pure perl Perl6 compiler

On 6 Apr 2005, at 13:50, Nicholas Clark wrote:

> The roadmap starts with an introduction to Ponie, gives instructions 
> on how to check it out of CVS and build it, and other useful 
> information, so I'll avoid duplicating its contents here.
>
> Ponie is using released versions of Perl 5.9.x, rather than tracking 
> the day to day core perl development. As Rafael released 5.9.2 last 
> week, on Monday I updated Ponie's source to 5.9.2. Given that Ponie 
> has made quite a lot of changes to odd parts of the Perl source, and 
> there has been a lot of core Perl development since 5.9.1, this 
> upgrade was never going to be trivial. In the end it took a the whole 
> day of hard work, but it seems to be working now. ["You are in a 
> twisty maze of CVS conflicts, all alike". :-( Banging my head trying 
> to work out why ExtUtils::MakeMaker is ignoring miniperl. etc]
>
> Nicholas Clark
>

I see a need for subversion/svk to help with this :-)


Cheers
Arthur

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