smoke.parrotcode is dead, long life to Smolder

[jerry gay]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 07:44, Michael Peters <mpeters at plusthree.com> wrote:
> François Perrad wrote:
>> Currently, smolder.plusthree.com hosts 2 projects : Parrot & Pipp.
>>
>> How create project (with different project ID) for other languages ?
>> Who has this privilege ?
>
> I run that smolder install. But at some point we might want to consider putting a new install on
> some other Parrot Foundation server (smolder.parrot.org?) to make it more obvious and to remove me
> as a bottleneck. It's also currently on server my company is letting me use, which prevents me from
> opening up access to more people (we also host our internal projects on the same install).
>
i'd like very much to make this happen. i'll ask our hosts if they'd
be willing to install smolder for us.

>> Languages need smoke, even the small or obfuscated one.
>
> If it's built-in to parrot and will remain with parrot source code, then yes that could definitely
> be possible.
>
>> If we don't setup this kind of infrastructure, most of languages (except
>> Rakudo) will die before the Parrot 1.0 milestone.
>>
>> Today, I prefer the idea of a project for each language than a project
>> with all languages.
>
agreed.

> I'm open to setting up a project for each language that wants it. Or helping the Parrot Foundation
> setup it's own smolder install (I'll be hopefully doing some smolder hacking over the holiday break,
> so we should probably wait until after that's done).
>
excellent. let's see if we can get it done before the next release.
i'll let you know when i have more info.
~jerry