Re: rakudo, nqp, perl6, etc

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

Nevermind I see you're talking about tools/install-dist.pl

I am reading https://github.com/ugexe/zef/issues/117

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 12:57 PM, matthew sporleder
<msporleder%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Do you mean the zef-based installer that does this ?
> perl6 zef  --/build-depends --/test-depends --/depends --/p6c
> --/metacpan --/cpan --force install ./modules$path_sep$module;
>
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 7:53 AM, matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> 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 lang/nqp (out of date),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