I forgot my reference in the previous email: [1] http://irclog.perlgeek.de/parrot/2011-01-07#i_3162095
Pm On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 11:46:32AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > 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
