At xerox++'s suggestion, this year I factored Haskell-related tasks from Pugs and listed them as part of haskell.org project ideas for Google's Summer of Code, and listed myself as a mentor on both Haskell.org and the Perl Foundation. The perl.org project ideas list already has some Pugs-related items -- a port of DBI::PurePerl to Pugs, for example -- and I look forward to add more ideas to both lists in the days to come.
Also, thanks to xerox's effort, Pugs is now running on MacIntel, using Wolfgang Thaller's preliminary GHC 6.5 build. This of course made me wonder if I should give in and get a Pro 17" now, or wait for a probably more stable (and certainly less expensive) NonPro 15"... I guess I'll sleep on it. :-)
Ah! Thank you a million times. I've been trying to bootstrap ghc without ghc for a couple of days now. Next time, I think I'll save myself some trouble and just slam my head in a car door for an hour.
Posted by: Dudley | 2006.04.30 at 07:03 AM
The "Non-Pro" MacBook will likely have a 13-inch screen, not a 15-incher.
Posted by: John | 2006.04.30 at 07:14 AM
John: Ooh, that nailed it - I'm waiting for the hi-res 13-inch version. It's likely to fit in my handbag better. :-)
Posted by: Audrey T | 2006.04.30 at 12:39 PM
Porting DBI::PurePerl to Pugs would be of limited value.
I've adedd a deeper "Reimplement the DBI v1 API in Pugs" suggestion to the Summer of Code ideas list,
Posted by: Tim Bunce | 2006.04.30 at 02:03 PM
Tim: Ahh, right. An "idiomatic" port is surely more important than a "transliterating" port, as we can already "use perl5:DBI", and at this point it'd be more interesting to explore the design changes that fits the Perl 6 model better.
Posted by: Audrey T | 2006.04.30 at 05:19 PM