On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 05:16:45PM +0100, François Perrad wrote: > plumage is not useful when a HLL author wants to test its HLL. > plumage is useful when a parrot developer wants to test many HLL and/or > modules > against the head of parrot. I hope that will become an usual practice.
Hmm. I (and others, see [1]) had understood plumage to be more of an end-user facing tool -- not something primarily for use by Parrot developers. Am I incorrect here? If the answer is "plumage is for developers _and_ users", then we likely have a bit of a conflict, at least as plumage is currently written. Rakudo wants Parrot developers to test Parrot against Rakudo's master head (which appears to be what plumage does now). But end-users should not be using the Rakudo master branch -- our current preference is for end-users to install from the latest Rakudo Star tarball, or obtain an appropriate .deb/.rpm/whatever for the OS. Can we get some clarification on where plumage fits in the overall ecosystem? (The README for plumage says that it *is* the Parrot ecosystem, but the ecosystem that plumage currently implements isn't at all the ecosystem that Rakudo end-users are likely to be working with.) Pm _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
