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Today, for the second month in a row, I downloaded the Rakudo Star tarball from github and built Perl 6. I built it following the instructions in the README exactly, with the result that in my top- level directory I have this: [li11-226:rakudo-star-2010.08] 502 $ ll total 14452 -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 6633 Aug 25 09:17 Configure.pl -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 8902 Aug 25 09:17 LICENSE -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 103652 Aug 26 08:45 MANIFEST -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 6309 Aug 26 18:47 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 6607 Aug 25 13:37 README drwxr-xr-x 2 jimk jimk 1024 Aug 26 18:43 build drwxr-xr-x 3 jimk jimk 1024 Aug 26 18:43 docs drwxr-xr-x 8 jimk jimk 1024 Aug 26 18:57 install drwxr-xr-x 22 jimk jimk 1024 Aug 26 18:43 modules drwxr-xr-x 15 jimk jimk 2048 Aug 26 18:47 parrot-2.7.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 jimk jimk 14596343 Aug 26 18:57 perl6 drwxr-xr-x 8 jimk jimk 1024 Aug 26 18:56 rakudo Of note: (a) the perl6 executable gets built in the top-level directory; (b) I have a full Parrot checkout and build under parrot-2.7.0; (c) I have *another* perl6 executable under rakudo/ ... plus a whole lot more: $ ll rakudo total 80151 -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 6162 Aug 26 08:45 CREDITS -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 6685 Aug 26 08:45 Configure.pl -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 8902 Aug 26 08:45 LICENSE -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 21114 Aug 26 18:52 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 10164 Aug 26 08:45 README -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 160087 Aug 26 18:56 Test.pir -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 7174 Aug 26 08:45 Test.pm -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 8 Aug 26 08:45 VERSION drwxr-xr-x 2 jimk jimk 1024 Aug 26 18:43 build drwxr-xr-x 3 jimk jimk 1024 Aug 26 18:43 docs drwxr-xr-x 2 jimk jimk 1024 Aug 26 18:53 dynext -rwxr-xr-x 1 jimk jimk 14596343 Aug 26 18:56 perl6 -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 37775640 Aug 26 18:56 perl6.c -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 14567448 Aug 26 18:56 perl6.o -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 14565504 Aug 26 18:56 perl6.pbc -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 3491 Aug 26 18:53 perl6_group.c -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 539 Aug 26 18:53 perl6_group.h -rw-r--r-- 1 jimk jimk 2684 Aug 26 18:53 perl6_group.o drwxr-xr-x 13 jimk jimk 1024 Aug 26 18:43 src drwxr-xr-x 6 jimk jimk 1024 Aug 26 18:43 t drwxr-xr-x 3 jimk jimk 1024 Aug 26 18:43 tools ... and (d) a lot more under install/. Do I need all this if my only wish is to *use* and *learn* Perl 6 via Rakudo Star -- as distinct from *hacking* on Rakudo Perl? I doubt it. And since pushes my usage on this disk up to 95% -- the same disk I use to do a lot of testing of Parrot branches -- I would *really* like to know how much of this stuff under rakudo- star-2010.08/ and still have a fully functional perl6. And if the Rakudo team is serious about disk space issues, I think it would be a great idea if instructions on how to trim your disk space were either included in the README or in a file pointed to via the README. After all, we do not all have well-endowed disks. Thank you very much. kid51
