Re: rakudo, nqp, perl6, etc

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

So I just updated wip/p6-zef to use a dynamic PLIST because of the way
perl6 is currently building packages with dynamic file names.

I think we can use this pattern to get all of -star but maybe stay in
wip/ until p6 gets their tooling cleaned up, which I think is also in
progress after some chats with them.

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 1:20 PM, matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 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 lang/nqp (out of date),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