Migration from Freenode to Libera

2021-05-31 Thread p.spek via perl6-users
Good day Rakoons, As you may have already heard, the Raku IRC channels have moved from Freenode to Libera. I've written a small blog post about this[1], but not everyone may have seen it. As such, I'm also writing on the mailing list to spread the word. Additionally, some module authors may have

Re: Rakudo Star 2021.04

2021-05-16 Thread p.spek via perl6-users
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 03:19:39PM +0200, no...@ist-einmalig.de wrote: > Do you mean you look into my repo and adopt / take over into [1] what is > needed _OR_ do you expect a pull request and are _willing_ to merge?! I've looked into the repo, but Windows is not my cup of tea, so I'm not entirely

Re: Rakudo Star 2021.04

2021-05-05 Thread p.spek via perl6-users
On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 06:26:16PM +0200, no...@ist-einmalig.de wrote: > Hi. > > Seems like my post to perl.perl6.users from yesterday was lost in space. > So, let's try again... > > Please find a recent (2021.04) release of the "Rakudo-Star Windows" MSI > package in my repo [1]. > > This releas

Rakudo Star 2021.04

2021-04-27 Thread p.spek via perl6-users
Good day, fellow Rakoons! Another set of Rakudo, MoarVM and NQP releases has been spotted in the wild, and as such, another Rakudo Star has been prepared for you all. Get it while it's still warm on the Rakudo website[1], or the GitHub release page[2]! If anyone spots any issues with the tarball

Rakudo Star 2021.02.1

2021-03-02 Thread p.spek via perl6-users
Good morning/afternoon/evening Rakoons! Sadly, there was no Rakudo/MoarVM/NQP release in January, so Rakudo Star is going to use the next best thing, the release from February. This change was just pushed, and is ready to use. This is the first release that appears on GitHub as an actual release[

Raku modules in Gentoo's Portage

2020-12-01 Thread p.spek via perl6-users
Hi, fellow Rakoons, I've been looking into the creation of a Portage tree for Gentoo, to allow installation of Raku modules through the default package manager. There's currently two issues I need to iron out, and I have no clue how to fix either at this point. The first one deals with the instal

Rakudo Star 2020.10

2020-10-25 Thread p.spek via perl6-users
Hello my fellow Rakoons! I've built a new Rakudo Star using the just released 2020.10 Rakudo/NQP/MoarVM stack. The files are available at rakudo.org/star. - https://rakudo.org/dl/star/rakudo-star-2020.10.tar.gz - https://rakudo.org/dl/star/rakudo-star-2020.10.tar.gz.asc - https://rakudo.org/dl/st

Re: Readline package

2020-08-26 Thread p.spek via perl6-users
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 11:43:34AM -0500, Daniel ”Fooist” Lathrop wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > What do you think? > > -Daniel > > Sent from my iPhone > > Daniel Lathrop (@lathropd) > Mobile: (206) 718-0349 > PGP key: https://keybase.io/lathropd (raw) Hi Daniel, I've just started on making the

Re: Rakudo+ versions quoted in the documentation

2020-07-05 Thread p.spek via perl6-users
On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 09:10:58PM +0200, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > Yes. Sadly we don't have a procedure for that in place yet :-( > > > On 4 Jul 2020, at 21:07, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I just happened to look at the raku.org and raskudo.org download > > pages, and

Rakudo Star 2020.05

2020-05-26 Thread p.spek via perl6-users
Good day Rakoons! After two release candidates for 2020.05, I'm happy to announce that Rakudo Star is getting its official 2020.05 release. With help from hankache on the Windows side of things, we have gotten no reports of issues that prevent anyone from using this release. The files can be foun

Rakudo Star 2020.05-rc2

2020-05-15 Thread p.spek via perl6-users
Good day Rakoons! After the initial -rc1, I've received some feedback and have made a couple small tweaks to fix a few issues. This has resulted in a -rc2, which has been made public for testing. https://dist.tyil.nl/raku/rakudo-star/rakudo-star-2020.05-rc2.tar.gz https://dist.tyil.nl/raku/rakudo

Rakudo Star 2020.05-rc1

2020-05-11 Thread p.spek via perl6-users
Good day Rakoons! A new Rakudo compiler release has been announced this weekend, which has spurred me to start work on a new Rakudo Star as well. For those who want to test it out, 2020.05-rc1 is available as a source tarball on my servers: https://dist.tyil.nl/raku/rakudo-star/rakudo-star-2020.0