There is a difference in gcc and perl5. A C compiler is needed to build each and every thing out there. What is mean is: is bash version n-1 needed to build bash version n? I believe the answer is no.
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmich...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:37:45AM -0700, Dipesh Sharma wrote: > > Dependency on perl5 for building perl6 looks like a concern. It means > that > > we can't have and environment with perl6, without perl5. > > I disagree. Just because perl5 is currently required to *build* Rakudo > doesn't mean that perl5 has to be installed in order to *use* Rakudo. > > For example: > > "Dependency on gcc for building bash looks like a concern. It means > that we can't have an environment with bash, without gcc." > > However, I know of a lot of systems that use bash that don't have > gcc installed, so the above statement is clearly false.. Note > that you can replace "bash" in the statement above with things > like "awk", "sed", or even "perl5" and it's equally as false. > > As a very real example of this: It's entirely possible TODAY for > Windows users to install and use Rakudo without having Perl 5 > installed on their system. > > Pm >
