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Mr. Nobody

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Dec 4, 2002, 9:58:35 AM12/4/02
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There are some files in parrot that have names common in the first 8
characters. This will cause problems if someone tries to compile Parrot on
DOS. Is DOS an intended target, or should we not worry about this?

/core_ops*.c
/docs/packfile*.pod
/examples/assembly/benchmarks/gc*.pasm
/icu/source/data/mappings/ibm*.ucm
/icu/source/data/translit/t_Inter*.txt
/include/parrot/oplib/core_ops*.h
/languages/perl6/t/parser/similar*.[exp|pl]

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Aldo Calpini

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Dec 4, 2002, 10:02:08 AM12/4/02
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Mr. Nobody wrote:
> There are some files in parrot that have names common in the first 8
> characters. This will cause problems if someone tries to compile Parrot on
> DOS. Is DOS an intended target, or should we not worry about this?

my vote is NO. let us bury 8.3 very, very deep in the ground.


cheers,
Aldo

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Dan Sugalski

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Dec 4, 2002, 10:32:41 AM12/4/02
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At 6:58 AM -0800 12/4/02, Mr. Nobody wrote:
>There are some files in parrot that have names common in the first 8
>characters. This will cause problems if someone tries to compile Parrot on
>DOS. Is DOS an intended target, or should we not worry about this?

DOS isn't an intended compilation target, no.
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Michael G Schwern

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Dec 4, 2002, 1:01:13 PM12/4/02
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:32:41AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 6:58 AM -0800 12/4/02, Mr. Nobody wrote:
> >There are some files in parrot that have names common in the first 8
> >characters. This will cause problems if someone tries to compile Parrot on
> >DOS. Is DOS an intended target, or should we not worry about this?
>
> DOS isn't an intended compilation target, no.

Not even djgpp?


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Dan Sugalski

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Dec 4, 2002, 2:03:06 PM12/4/02
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At 10:01 AM -0800 12/4/02, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:32:41AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>> At 6:58 AM -0800 12/4/02, Mr. Nobody wrote:
>> >There are some files in parrot that have names common in the first 8
>> >characters. This will cause problems if someone tries to compile Parrot on
>> >DOS. Is DOS an intended target, or should we not worry about this?
>>
>> DOS isn't an intended compilation target, no.
>
>Not even djgpp?

Hadn't planned on it. What advantage does it give over windows?

Michael G Schwern

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Dec 4, 2002, 2:16:25 PM12/4/02
to Dan Sugalski, Mr. Nobody, perl6-i...@perl.org
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 02:03:06PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >> DOS isn't an intended compilation target, no.
> >
> >Not even djgpp?
>
> Hadn't planned on it. What advantage does it give over windows?

It'll compile C programs on a 386/SX, 20M of disk, 4megs of RAM and some
form of DOS.

Dunno if hardware that old is inside Parrot's scope.


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John Siracusa

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Dec 4, 2002, 2:23:10 PM12/4/02
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On 12/4/02 2:16 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 02:03:06PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>>>> DOS isn't an intended compilation target, no.
>>> Not even djgpp?
>>
>> Hadn't planned on it. What advantage does it give over windows?
>
> It'll compile C programs on a 386/SX, 20M of disk, 4megs of RAM and some
> form of DOS.
>
> Dunno if hardware that old is inside Parrot's scope.

Gah, it's like AutoLoader all over again! Please, let's just forget about
building on systems that only support 8.3 or else we'll never be rid of
them! :)

-John

Dan Sugalski

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Dec 4, 2002, 2:29:23 PM12/4/02
to Michael G Schwern, Mr. Nobody, perl6-i...@perl.org
At 11:16 AM -0800 12/4/02, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 02:03:06PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>> >> DOS isn't an intended compilation target, no.
>> >
>> >Not even djgpp?
>>
>> Hadn't planned on it. What advantage does it give over windows?
>
>It'll compile C programs on a 386/SX, 20M of disk, 4megs of RAM and some
>form of DOS.
>
>Dunno if hardware that old is inside Parrot's scope.

It's outside the scope. (I'm not sure if parrot can be built with
only 4M of RAM and 20M of disk...) If someone gets it going, great,
we'll do what we can to accommodate them, but I'll wait until someone
steps up to the plate and actually does it.

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