From: "Nathan Gray"
| A good starting place is: | | http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/docs/other/porting_howto Looks good ,thanks. For those of you that have been here a while I suspect you do not notice, but to me there seems to be no structure, no definitive place where one can go and find everything needed from a Central location. www.perl6.com would have been an excellent place to house a central repository of information, howtos, downloads, modules , samples etc etc, but unfortunatly seems to have been nabbed by a cybersquatter (http://www.strangelogic.com/) unless one of you lot of this site ? . Perl6.net/Perl6.org contain web versions of this list. http://search.cpan.org/modlist/Perl6 is empty, there are Perl6 Modules out there so why are they not in here, are all the v6 modules included in Pugs? - Can Perl6 modules now be submitted to CPAN? http://dev.perl.org/perl6/ would seem to be 'the' first port of call for information would that be fair to say. From there , there are links to Pugs and Parrot. For those that needed Perl 5, they downloaded Perl 5, if they needed specific Modules they downloaded them. With Perl 6 in its current form, new users can easily be confused, they still use Perl 5, then Parrot , then Pugs. What is the intention here, will all three be bundled together and just called 'Perl 6' or will users still have to go to three different sites to get a complete package? | (I wrote earlier :-) | > I have downloaded PXPerl for Windows (which seems a bit broken to me atm) I haven't really tried to test this yet, but hundreds of error messages flew past on install, has anyone else used this? | perl6-compiler is probably the best list for these kinds of questions, | at the moment, so you're in the right place. Good to know ,thanks. | | > You are all doing a great job, and I want to do my bit to get Perl 6 | > working - if I can. | | Awesome. Once I get my head around it that is. I have a couple of Modules in mind that do not seem to exist as Perl5 modules so hope I can fulfill both needs. What is to happen with the current list of Perl 5 Modules, are these to stay as they are with Perl 6 being able to read them ok, or is it preferred that they too be converted. Is there a Perl5 to Perl6 Module converter in the making ? | | > I guess I should us a linux box to keep up to date, best version to go for ? | | Not really necessary, we've got quite a few architectures represented. | Linux is only one. Not neccessary for the Perl6 project probably, but in my best interests would it be better to have a linux flavour so I can keep using upto date versions of Pugs/Parrot etc or is there somebody here doing a good job of quick turnarounds in compling Binary distributions so windows users arent always a month behind. Does someone here have a x86 version of Solaris 10 for example to test with, if not I could probably use that if it is supported. Thanks Gav... -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.16/50 - Release Date: 15/07/2005
