Re: Perl 6

2016-01-05 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 5, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> As far as I know, MacPorts does not contain anything called "perl_select". > > There is, actually, but it's a stub that doesn't do anything as yet (or > probably ever since it was subseque

Re: Perl 6

2016-01-05 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > As far as I know, MacPorts does not contain anything called "perl_select". There is, actually, but it's a stub that doesn't do anything as yet (or probably ever since it was subsequently decided to just move to a single Perl release). -- b

Re: Perl 6

2016-01-05 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 5, 2016, at 5:52 AM, Carlo Tambuatco wrote: > Will this work with perl_select…? My installation of perl_select has been a > bit flaky. As far as I know, MacPorts does not contain anything called "perl_select". We have "port select", but it does not handle perl; adding this feature is d

Re: Perl 6

2016-01-05 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 5 January 2016 at 12:52, Carlo Tambuatco wrote: > Will this work with perl_select…? No. Or at least not yet. Perl 6 is not even remotely compatible with Perl 5, so there is no way to switch between the two versions of Perl to run the same script. In the future it might be possible to prov

Perl 6

2016-01-04 Thread Mojca Miklavec
This is just to let you know that we now have Perl 6 in MacPorts. We don't ship any modules (modules are installed to ~/.perl6 with 'panda' – the equivalent of cpan). You can install it with sudo port install rakudo panda and install modules with panda install Task::Sta