Running Grants (2009 - I)

This is the first update for running grants on 2009. At the moment TPF has 12 running grants:

• Port pyYAML to Perl
  I just uploaded YAML-Perl-01_01. It has the entire Loader stack represented. You can play with it by using: ysh -MYAML::Perl
  It will load many simple YAML documents all the way through, but is not yet complete, so many others will fail. There are 10 modules involved in the Loader stack. They are all partially ported/working at this point. You can use the load stack at different levels. ie you can: Load, Construct, Compose, Parse and Scan a YAML stream. All the other YAML implementations can only Load.
  Next steps will be (roughly): Code the entire dumper stack [Done - see YAML-Perl-0.01_02 on CPAN - ed.], Finish porting the missing python functions, Harness the python test suite and get it passing, Work on the documentation, Finish work on YAML2, Replace YAML with YAML2

• Test::Builder 2
  No updates from grantee.

• SMOP
  No updates from grantee.

• Archive::Zip bugs
  Alan Haggai continues work on Archive-Zip, although this week was not productive. He wanted to get unicode filename support in, and got bogged down learning more about how Perl does unicode. A dev release has hit CPAN containing his bug fixes so far: http://search.cpan.org/src/ADAMK/Archive-Zip-1.27_01/Changes

• Extending BSDPAN
  No updates from grantee.

• Perl Cross-Compilation for WinCE and Linux
  No updates from grantee.

• Tcl/Tk Access in Rakudo
  No updates from grantee.

• The Perl Survey
  Kieren plans to start working on the survey grant at the end of the week.

• The Mojo Documentation Project
  No updates, yet.

• Embeding Perl into C++ Applications
  Leon was working on his exams during-December, but has made some progress with unit testing.

• Moose Docs
  Dave already started to improve the Moose Documentation. He plans to ship a first version of Moose::Manual some time in January.

• Integrating Padre with Parrot and Rakudo
  Gabor already started and he blogs about the progress. His blog can be found at http://szabgab.com/blog.html. Padre now has a (slow) syntax highlighting for Perl 6.