tools/install/smoke_languages.pl: What purpose does this serve?

[Christoph Otto]

Parrot used to host all languages in our repo.  smoke_languages.pl does look 
like a leftover from that era.  Instead of nuking it, how about updating it to 
make smoking external languages via plumage easier?

Christoph

On 01/15/2011 03:58 PM, Andrew Whitworth wrote:
> I suspect strongly that the script is not useful anymore. Create a
> branch, delete it, and see what happens.
>
> --Andrew Whitworth
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:47 PM, James E Keenan<jkeen at verizon.net>  wrote:
>> In the course of some cage-cleaning, I came across
>> http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/1360.  This led me to look at
>> tools/install/smoke_languages.pl and try to run it.  This was the output I
>> got:
>>
>> perl tools/install/smoke_languages.pl --bindir=.
>> 1..33
>> ok 1 # skip abc
>> ok 2 # skip Befunge
>> ok 3 # skip bf
>> ok 4 # skip bf
>> ok 5 # skip bf
>> ok 6 # skip blizkost
>> ok 7 # skip Cardinal
>> ok 8 # skip ChitChat
>> ok 9 # skip .NET
>> ok 10 # skip EcmaScript
>> ok 11 # skip fun
>> ok 12 # skip fun
>> ok 13 # skip gil
>> ok 14 # skip HQ9Plus
>> ok 15 # skip Lisp
>> ok 16 # skip LOLCODE
>> ok 17 # skip Lua
>> ok 18 # skip m4
>> ok 19 # skip Markdown
>> ok 20 # skip matrixy
>> ok 21 # skip Paraplegic
>> ok 22 # skip Pheme
>> ok 23 # skip Pipp
>> ok 24 # skip porcupine
>> ok 25 # skip primitivearc
>> ok 26 # skip Punie
>> ok 27 # skip Pynie
>> ok 28 # skip Rakudo
>> ok 29 # skip Shakespeare
>> ok 30 # skip steme
>> ok 31 # skip Squaak
>> ok 32 # skip unlambda
>> ok 33 # skip WMLScript
>>
>> Wow! Awesome!
>>
>> Now, ISTR that once upon a time a lot of toy languages had Parrot
>> implementations and lived in our repository.  Well they're not there any
>> more.  Which leads to the question:  What purpose, if any, does this program
>> serve?
>>
>> If no one can articulate a good reason for retaining it, out it goes!
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>> kid51
>>
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