[tor-dev] Embedding Parrot in Tor as GSoC Project

Robert Ransom rransom.8774 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 07:56:44 UTC 2011


On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 21:51:57 -0700
"Jonathan \"Duke\" Leto" <jonathan at leto.net> wrote:

> Parrot recently added a GSoC proposal idea to embed Parrot into Tor.
> It would be great to get the feedback from Tor developers.
> 
> Also, this could be under the Parrot or the Tor GSoC project,
> whichever makes the most sense.
> 
> The proposal idea could use more detail, but the high-level view that
> I imagine is:
> 
> 1) Allow Parrot to talk to libtor (this will use NCI - Native Call
> Interface) via PIR
> 2) Ability to create Parrot interpreter objects from within Tor via C
> 3) Write glue code for a High Level Language (HLL) to talk to libtor

I've never heard of ‘libtor’.  What's that?

> There are various HLL's to choose from: Lua, TCL, Perl 6, Winxed, NQP
> and others.


Robert Ransom
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