Rakudo build broken as of parrot RELEASE_2_10_1-633-ga3ca6c8

Moritz Lenz moritz at faui2k3.org
Wed Dec 1 15:37:50 UTC 2010


Am 01.12.2010 16:18, schrieb Peter Lobsinger:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Andy Dougherty<doughera at lafayette.edu>  wrote:
>> Rakudo won't build with the current parrot master.  The first error
>> message is about the function 'Parrot_get_ctx_HLL_namespace'.  Were some
>> functions renamed?  If so, the old names should still be kept around as
>> wrappers for the new names, at least for a while.
>>
>> (Breakage like this makes it really hard to reliably bisect for important
>> changes.)
>
> I get the sense there's an expectation that rakudo should always build
> and run cleanly against parrot head.

While this would be nice, I don't see this as the main point of this 
discussion.

To me the most important point is that a deprecation notice is useless 
to the user, unless an alternative is already avaialabe at the time when 
the notice is published.

Cheers,
Moritz


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