Mark bond wrote:
Hello Tony,
On 16/03/2005, you wrote:
I'm catching up after return from holidays and I see it's vewwy, vewwy quiet here. Is there a regular IRC on Thurs nights as before? I called in last week but was alone.
I'm hoping to finish my OS4 development task in the next couple of weeks (or at least get it off the front burner), so then I can start looking at BerkeleyDB and Kaffe.
cheers
Things have been a bit quiet recently, I think we are awaiting the outcome of a couple of other projects (abc-shell, and the next OS4 update for the ixemul/perl compatibility)
On that note, can everyone update us on their status please.
It looks like abc-shell might be almost ready for a alpha-/beta-release (Andy Broad has done a lot of work lately).
I am trying to finish a port of Coreutils (also needed when configuring ports), but not everything is going to work :-( I have almost finished updating AWK, and that is going to get released at the same time as coreutils.
About Perl, do I think that we should try to have a look at the future... I have been looking at Parrot - http://www.parrotcode.org/ - the new virtual machine, that Perl6 is going to run on. I will try to see if I can build Parrot, when I get the update, as it would give us a lot of new languages, like forth, Perl5, Perl6, python, tcl and a lot more... There has also been some talk about a possibility for Java running on Parrot ;-) I don't know if I am going to try porting it, but it is worth looking at :-) It is even register-based, like AmigaDE, where the Perl5VM is stack-based.
I am going to begin trying to port the Cairo graphics library as soon as I have finished Coreutils and AWK. And at the same time, will I start making my libX11-wrapper (I guess this one can take long time).
Regards
Mark