Re: Bug#643469: ITP: nqp -- Not Quite Perl compiler

2011-10-01 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:21:11PM +0100, Allison Randal wrote: > On 09/27/2011 06:39 PM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 05:24:16PM +0100, Allison Randal wrote: > > Quoting from the nqp README: > >> is focused on being a high-level way to create compilers and libraries > >>

Re: Bug#643469: ITP: nqp -- Not Quite Perl compiler

2011-09-27 Thread Allison Randal
On 09/27/2011 06:39 PM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 05:24:16PM +0100, Allison Randal wrote: > Quoting from the nqp README: >> is focused on being a high-level way to create compilers and libraries >> for virtual machines (such as the Parrot Virtual Machine) > > It doesn't

Re: Bug#643469: ITP: nqp -- Not Quite Perl compiler

2011-09-27 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 01:17:10PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Alessandro Ghedini] > > It doesn't really sound as intended *only* for Parrot (ok, as of now it > > does support only parrot, but in the future this may change). > > > > Also, aren't parrot-nqp and nqp different things? (parrot

Re: Bug#643469: ITP: nqp -- Not Quite Perl compiler

2011-09-27 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Alessandro Ghedini] > It doesn't really sound as intended *only* for Parrot (ok, as of now it > does support only parrot, but in the future this may change). > > Also, aren't parrot-nqp and nqp different things? (parrot-nqp is currently > used to build nqp). Are you saying one of them is nqp an

Re: Bug#643469: ITP: nqp -- Not Quite Perl compiler

2011-09-27 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 05:24:16PM +0100, Allison Randal wrote: > On 09/27/2011 04:38 PM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 04:04:00PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > >> On Tuesday 27 September 2011 14:39:22 Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > >>> * Package name: nqp > >> > >> This

Re: Bug#643469: ITP: nqp -- Not Quite Perl compiler

2011-09-27 Thread Allison Randal
On 09/27/2011 04:38 PM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 04:04:00PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: >> On Tuesday 27 September 2011 14:39:22 Alessandro Ghedini wrote: >>> * Package name: nqp >> >> This "nqp" name is a bit terse. > > That's how it's called. We have many three

Re: Bug#643469: ITP: nqp -- Not Quite Perl compiler

2011-09-27 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 04:04:00PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Tuesday 27 September 2011 14:39:22 Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > > * Package name: nqp > > This "nqp" name is a bit terse. That's how it's called. We have many three-letters-acronym packages and I may be wrong, but "nqp" d

Re: Bug#643469: ITP: nqp -- Not Quite Perl compiler

2011-09-27 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday 27 September 2011 14:39:22 Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > * Package name: nqp This "nqp" name is a bit terse. How about naming this package "perl-nqp" or, spell it out and name it "not- quite-perl" ? All the best Dominique -- http://config-model.wiki.sourceforge.net/ -o- http://sea

Bug#643469: ITP: nqp -- Not Quite Perl compiler

2011-09-27 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessandro Ghedini * Package name: nqp Version : 0.1~2011.09 Upstream Author : The NQP Team * URL : https://github.com/perl6/nqp * License : Artistic-2.0 Programming Lang: C, Perl Description : Not Quite Perl comp