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Joel Berger wrote: This month's work on Alien::Base started really exciting. I had tracked down several bugs and was honing in on full Linux compatibiliy. Turns out much of my testing problems had been in the test suite, wherein I mimiced make/Makefile with a perl script but made some incorrect assumptions. The problem came when I went to look at OS X. The problem I have found is that Mac ... read more |
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Joel Berger wrote: After last month's breakneck development pace, I knew this month wouldn't be as gratifying, and indeed it turned into quite a slog. This month involved lots of little bug fixes, posting dev releases to CPAN, then waiting for test results from CPANtesters. As a side note, there are a larger number of reports coming from Solaris and BSD than I would have expected. Sadly one of the ... read more |
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Joel Berger wrote: Once again I would like the thank the Perl Foundation for supporting me in my effort to provide a mechanism to ease the creation of Alien:: modules. Further I'd like to thank the many Perlers who have commented in various places that this project is of interest and that they are looking forward to providing that Alien:: module that they have always meant to write. This is ... read more |
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Jonathan Leto wrote: Really TLDR: The Parrot has landed. It brings me great joy to announce that I have completed all milestones for my "TPF":http://perlfoundation.org/ grant regarding the Parrot "Embed/Extend subsystems":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/11/2010q4-grant-proposal-improve.html! Not only that, but all of my grant work was included in the most recent release of Parrot, "3.5.0 "Menelaus"":http://parrot.org/news/2011/Parrot-3.5.0. The actual TLDR of this update is "many tests were written, code coverage is above "95%":http://tapir2.ro.vutbr.cz/cover/latest-c_cover/src-embed-api-c.html "for all":http://tapir2.ro.vutbr.cz/cover/latest-c_cover/src-extend-c.html "systems ... read more |
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Jonathan Leto wrote: I am excited to announce that I have completed my next grant milestone! I recently increased test coverage of extend_vtable.c to over 95% achieving the milestone with a half percent buffer. It definitely wasn't easy, but I changed the way I was approaching writing tests and it resulted in a "huge burst of productivity":https://github.com/parrot/parrot/compare/5dd8c543ab...8c04cc3e66. I went through a test coverage report and wrote down, on an actual ... read more |