people do read :/
Posted by mcummings
after making this quick post this morning, i discovered a few things. I have to say I felt like an idiot and meant no disrespect to audrey (depending on my mood and caffeine levels, her reply is either laughing or weary of explaining). To explain what was in my head at the time...you see, i had this vision of josh mcadams wanting to interview her, but not being able to get her on the phone, so they hooked festival up to an im or irc or some such....ok, this scenario made a lot more sense when i was thinking it earlier....bah....
bug day this weekend. maybe this will be my magic month to participate finally...? (how was that for a non-sequiter)
perlcast
Posted by mcummings
Got amarok all set up for catching podcasts as they appear - too cool. Listened to Audrey Tang's interview on perlcast, and was struck by the one thing I should know better than to care about: was that festival or a voice masker? not knowing anything whatsover about autrijus other than her contributions to perl6 and such (and recognizing bluntly that i'm not even close to a caliber) i'm left wondering the stupid things...kind of reminiscent of the princess bride, really, and the whole dialog about "Why do you wear a mask?"
perl-5.8.8-r1
Posted by mcummings
Up till now we've let some cumalative, mostly ALT related stuff, but today I added the patch that fixes the cplusplus problems with XS related code (if you've had problems with things like graphviz, wxperl, etc., you know what I'm talking about). So, eat it up, yum!
Squandered, misbegotten, forgotten programing language of Gentoo, unite!
Posted by mcummings
[The following message is meant in jest. No offense to the popular, already like languages is meant. It is true - this is a result of haskal getting the short end of the stick in a gentoo-dev mail list discussion of late, based principally on unsupported architectures complaining about a lack of haskell support to be able to support dcars, but I digress. Blame the allergy meds for my sour attitude.]
Are you a herd maintainer for a programming language that is spat upon in the streets? Do other Gentoo devs look at you and merely grumble about incomprehensible namespace rules breaking irreprehensible compiler engines? Do you feel dirty pixels cast your way whenever you have to talk about the programming language herd you help watch and protect is brought up in public Gentoo discussions?
da, common-lisp, scheme, haskell, ml, prolog, tcl, rubt, dotnet, modula, pascal - join together! Sure, perl herd is used a lot, but as a project we're still dealt the short end of the ugly stick by most gentoo porting architectures, plus them other folks.
I propose we gather our forces together to form a project - i bet there's enough of us to even generate a strategic lead, maybe even force our way into them upper management folks' meeting space. why, we might even go on strike and bring gentoo to its knees! or hoofs. something like that. we stil have larry, right? 'cause i loves me the larry, and i'd hate to see him go. but yeah - unsung languages of Gentoo join together!
[ The preceeding was an unpaid political speech. Please remember to vote for Larry if you have elections coming up. The proletariat and bourgeoisie are both against us. ]
lmao at these overlay conversations
Posted by mcummings
you just can't help laugh at the overlay thing - not because of technical merit, not because of scope of ownership or responsibility - but because ultimately its just another name for a dev branch. can't say it isn't overdue - it'd be nice to have a place to post things that people can play and work with that isn't automatically part of the queue for the Road-To-Stable. i haven't done any lookups in the archives to see who favored what with regards to setting up staggered or development copies of the repo, but i'd swear at least a few of the folks that were against that are completely in favor of the overlay thing (could be wrong, my memory sux0rs these days, ask flameeyes about that bug i was going to do for him...i think...). Just goes to show its all in the presentation of the idea. or maybe we're all burned out arguing about other crap on -core that this is a welcome break. meh. ymmv.