Running Grants (2008-V)
Fri, 03-Oct-2008 by
Alberto Simões
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<p>At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running grants:</p><ul><li><span class="nlw_phrase"><a title="inter-workspace link: perlfoundation" href="http://www.perlfoundation.org/colin_smith_extending_bsdpan">Colin Smith - Extending BSDPAN</a></span></li></ul><blockquote>No updates from grantee.<br /></blockquote><ul><li><span class="nlw_phrase"><a title="inter-workspace link: perlfoundation" href="http://www.perlfoundation.org/leon_timmermans_embedding_perl_into_c_applications">Leon Timmermans - Embedding perl into C++ applications</a></span></li></ul><blockquote>Leon report:<i> I've been mostly busy with implementing a TAP producer to build my tests with, and with implementing tests. So far I've been mainly implementing tests for sanity and numeric behavior. On the way there I fixed a few bugs, and added a few operators. Also I've eliminated a dependency on Boost. MPL, I hope this will cut down the build time. Lastly I've started implementing typemapping. </i><br /></blockquote><ul><li><span class="nlw_phrase"><a title="inter-workspace link: perlfoundation" href="http://www.perlfoundation.org/vadim_konovalov_tcl_tk_access_for_rakudo">Vadim Konovalov - Tcl/Tk access for Rakudo</a></span></li></ul><blockquote>No updates from Grant Manager.<br /></blockquote><ul><li><span class="nlw_phrase"><a title="inter-workspace link: perlfoundation" href="http://www.perlfoundation.org/andrew_shitov_barcode_support_in_act">Andrew Shitov - Barcode support in Act</a></span></li></ul><blockquote>Andrew should start working by mid-October.<br /></blockquote><ul><li><span class="nlw_phrase"><a title="inter-workspace link: perlfoundation" href="http://www.perlfoundation.org/vadim_konovalov_perl_cross_compilation_for_linux_and_wince">Vadim Konovalov - Perl cross-compilation for linux and wince</a></span></li></ul><blockquote>No updates from Grant Manager.<br /></blockquote><ul><li><span class="nlw_phrase"><a title="inter-workspace link: perlfoundation" href="http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl">Ingy dot Net - Port PyYAML to Perl</a></span></li></ul><blockquote>Ingy wrote an article on the state of YAML on Perl. Please check it here: <a href="http://yaml.kwiki.org/?PerlStateOfTheYAML">http://yaml.kwiki.org/?PerlStateOfTheYAML </a><br /></blockquote><ul><li><span class="nlw_phrase"><a title="inter-workspace link: perlfoundation" href="http://www.perlfoundation.org/test_builder_2">Michael Schwern - Test::Builder 2</a></span></li></ul><blockquote>No updates from Grant Manager.<br /></blockquote><ul><li><span class="nlw_phrase"><a title="inter-workspace link: perlfoundation" href="http://www.perlfoundation.org/make_localtime_and_gmtime_work_past_2038">Michael Schwern - Make localtime() and gmtime() Work Past 2038</a></span></li></ul><blockquote>YE2038 discussion continues active on Perl5-Porters. We expect conclusions soon.<br /></blockquote><ul><li><span class="nlw_phrase"><a title="inter-workspace link: perlfoundation" href="http://www.perlfoundation.org/fixing_bugs_in_the_archive_zip_perl_module">Alan Alavi - Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module</a></span></li></ul><blockquote>Alan was not working for 2-3 weeks due to exams, but is back working on his<br />task now. <br /></blockquote><ul><li><a href="http://www.perlfoundation.org/smop_simple_meta_object_programming">Daniel Ruoso - SMOP: Simple Meta Object Programming</a></li></ul><blockquote>Daniel Report:<i> Even if the things are moving somewhat more slowly at the moment, it actually means that we are really close to have some very cool things working.<br /><br />The first very good news is that SMOP is the first implementation to support lazy map and grep. Lazyness has been neglected in most implementations, and the Perl6-awareness of the SMOP interpreter model is proving itself as a very big deal, since gather/take is also being to be somewhat easy to implement.<br /><br />On the other hand, we have the first prototype implementations of SMOP front-ends, thanks to pmurias++, who has written the code to embed SMOP in pugs, and had recently started another project to transform STD parse tree into m0ld code, which is sort of the start of using SMOP as a STD backend.<br /><br />The next most important step is the definition of the "Prelude Lexical Scope" which is the ultimate outer scope, and places local aliases to several variables that should be available for any Perl 6 code (&map, &infix:<+> and the built-in types, which including realizing the import of the "is export" methods)<br /></i><i><br /></i></blockquote><ul><li><a href="http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_on_a_stick">Adam Kennedy - Perl on a Stick</a></li></ul><blockquote>Adam is nearly completion. Good news soon, we expect.<br /></blockquote>
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