[UNSURE]Re: tools/install/smoke_languages.pl: What purpose does this serve?

François Perrad francois.perrad at gadz.org
Sun Jan 16 08:33:02 UTC 2011


2011/1/16 Christoph Otto <christoph at mksig.org>

> 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!
>>>
>>
I use this script (and I ship it with Windows setup-parrot).
It is useful only after installing some HLL.

François



>
>>> Thank you very much.
>>>
>>> kid51
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