The Raku Programming Language Collect, Conserve and Remaster Project
Originally published on 3 September 2008 by Carl Mäsak.
The past week has been a flurry of patches. moritz++ contributed the code to what will eventually become the new HTML::Template, with a corresponding test suite. Development is stuck in a branch for the time being, blocking on #58392 which causes many tests to fail. (Dear parrot folks: help appreciated. Incorrect call stack semantics is one of the few things that are hard to temporarily work around.)
moritz++ continued by contributing his own Text::Escape module, which will replace the simplistic solution used right now, as soon as we figure out why it crashes when loaded.
Later in the week, Илья Беликин (ihrd++) of Vladivostok.pm joined forces with us, sending several patches for the CGI module. Илья asked many sensible questions, and I reached the realization that there’s too little readily available information out there for people who want to hack. The rest of this post will try to remedy that.
(But first, a short commercial break. If you find yourself in the vicinity of Vladivostok on 26 September, consider joining FEPW 2008 where I hear they might even do some November hacking.)
FEATURES, JANITORS and LOOKINTO together constitute our roadmap right now. Note that these files are found in p5w/, the Perl implementation of the wiki. [Update 2008-09-21: Now they’re found in docs/ instead.]p5w before we try them out on p6w. This is because bugs easily distract from the goal in p6w. The Perl version is a sort of live spec for the Raku version.new-html-template aims to replace the HTML::Template with a new grammar-using module, and tests is a playground for new test files for other modules. (Things like branches change quickly. github is the ultimate reference.)#november over at irc.freenode.org.Enjoy!