Re: rakudo, nqp, perl6, etc

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

You are the second person to recommend managing the 39 (ish?) packages
individually instead of a single wrapper for the entire 'star' bundle.

I can see the appeal but it sounds like a lot of potential for drift.

Is there a problem with zef as a build tool?  Maybe we can ask for
some changes to it.

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 4:29 AM, Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> I think the rakudo-star packages should both be deleted, and the individual
> pkgs imported from wip.
>
> What does not work yet is actually installing Perl 6 modules. There is a
> script in the rakudo distribution that does the right thing, it needs to be
> installed and used in the right place. wip/p6-zef is not suitable for
> distribution packaging, it is meant for interactive use.
>
> matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost> schrieb am Fr. 28. Juli 2017 um
> 05:07:
>>
>> Sorry I missed wip/rakudo-star (also abandoned?)
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 9:39 PM, matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>
>> wrote:
>> > I'd like to get our perl6 packages lined up but would like to also
>> > document what I found and get some opinions.  This is my second
>> > attempt to look at this but I think things have settled a lot since
>> > the "christmas release".
>> >
>> > lang/nqp (out of date),
>> > lang/rakudo-star (abandoned?),
>> > devel/MoarVM (current),
>> > wip/rakudo (current),
>> > wip/nqp (current)
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > So for starters I think we should:
>> > 1) import wip/nqp into lang/nqp
>> > 2) import wip/rakudo into devel/ or lang/
>> > 3) replace lang/rakudo-star as being just the bundle of "core" modules
>> > + zef as found here: https://github.com/rakudo/star
>> > 4) make a lang/perl6 that is just an alias for the new rakudo-star pkg
>> >
>> > Anyone have a strong opinion?
>> > Matt