If my understanding is correct (might not be), the tarball should be ALMOST
equivalent to:
rakudobrew build moar 2016.01.1 # Install rakudo 2016.01.1
rakudobrew global 2016.01.1 # Make this the default
rakudobrew build panda # Build panda for this rakudo
panda install Task::Star # Get the latest Task::Star, needs
--force to do again
I just did these steps on my Debian machine with no problems.
The main issue I can think of is the last step -- installing Task::Star
installs the current version of all the packages, whereas the tarball
rakudo-star release includes a specific version of each of the Star
modules. If someone updates SVG then this will get the LATEST, not the one
in the official release. I think this is a weakness of the versioning
system -- ideally you'd be able to do something like "panda install
Task::Star=2016.01" and get the exact same thing.
I see Moritz replied to this also saying that the tarball is the way to go.
I'd love to know what I'm missing out on by doing it this way.
--Brock
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 7:26 AM, James E Keenan <jk...@verizon.net> wrote:
> On 02/03/2016 10:48 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 10:30 PM, James E Keenan <jk...@verizon.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I am evidently confused as to the relationship, if any, between the
>>> 'rakudobrew' utility and the Rakudo::Star distribution.
>>>
>>
>>
>> In short: rakudobrew is for the folks who want to track the rapid
>> development of Rakudo. Star is for folks who want something stable in
>> order
>> to play with the language, and includes the Task::Star ecosystem. As Star
>> was cut earlier today, it's based on the rakudo that was current earlier
>> today (and still fairly current as there haven't been many commits in the
>> past few hours).
>>
>> It's more or less the difference between a Python or Perl 5 release, and
>> installing either from git HEAD. rakudobrew builds from HEAD; Star is a
>> release, which happens to be close to HEAD at the moment because it was
>> just created. HEAD will keep moving; Star will stay stable for a while
>> (used to be monthly, but they're considering releasing less often now)
>> before the next release.
>>
>>
> So, to clarify: If I want to get this week's release of Rakudo Star on,
> say, Linux, I have to download this tarball:
>
> http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/rakudo-star-2016.01.tar.gz
>
> ... and build from source -- correct? I cannot use rakudobrew for Rakudo
> Star -- correct?
>
>
> Thank you very much.
> Jim Keenan
>
