On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 06:10:21PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: > 2008/8/29 Allison Randal: > > Reini Urban wrote: > >> Current exceptions for the "parrot-" prefix: > >> perl6 > > > > Actually, that probably won't be an exception to the "parrot-" prefix on the > > package name, since there are multiple implementations of Perl 6. > > Ok, so there will be pugs, perl -Mv6 and rakudo | parrot-perl6 > Maybe both /usr/bin/rakudo and /usr/bin/perl6 should be symlinked to > /usr/bin/parrot-perl6 then. > Currently there's only a /usr/bin/perl6 being installed. > > This really should be made ready for the September release. > > > Again, it should be a configuration option to install aliases for > > executables with the language "nicknames". Not a requirement for the > > packaged versions, but the $0 handling will be built in to Parrot, so the > > user could also easily create their own 'ln -s' aliases. > > Good idea. > Within the PCT::HLLCompiler I assume.
PCT::HLLCompiler can't do it alone -- it will have to be part of the Parrot invocation in order to work. Thus my earlier comment/question [1] about this thread being related to the comments in RT #47992. [1] http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl6.internals/msg/d9c8af92ed2ab04d Pm
