I've just committed an initial pass on the Installation PDD. It's
looking good, definitely a good start. I've included some comments to
seed further discussion and development of the draft.
Also, we'll need to include more details on the installation of Parrot
itself (the draft leans pretty he
Allison Randal schrieb:
Will Coleda wrote:
It's important to keep in mind that for the most part, at least on
unix-related operating systems, executables for a particular language
will
simply be an 'ln -s' to /usr/bin/parrot (taking advantage of the $0
executable name information to set up ce
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 06:10:21PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
2008/8/29 Allison Randal:
... the $0 handling will be built in to Parrot, so the
user could also easily create their own 'ln -s' aliases.
Within the PCT::HLLCompiler I assume.
PCT::HLLCompiler can't do it
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 06:10:21PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> 2008/8/29 Allison Randal:
> > Reini Urban wrote:
> >> Current exceptions for the "parrot-" prefix:
> >> perl6
> >
> > Actually, that probably won't be an exception to the "parrot-" prefix on the
> > package name, since there are multip
Will Coleda wrote:
It's important to keep in mind that for the most part, at least on
unix-related operating systems, executables for a particular language will
simply be an 'ln -s' to /usr/bin/parrot (taking advantage of the $0
executable name information to set up certain configuration for the
Reini Urban wrote:
Ok, so there will be pugs, perl -Mv6 and rakudo | parrot-perl6
Maybe both /usr/bin/rakudo and /usr/bin/perl6 should be symlinked to
/usr/bin/parrot-perl6 then.
Currently there's only a /usr/bin/perl6 being installed.
This really should be made ready for the September release.
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>>
>> Problem:
>>
>> Most packages will not accept packages with /usr/bin/scheme,
>> /usr/bin/lisp, /usr/bin/forth, /usr/bin/lua, /usr/bin/tclsh
>> were these are the parrot implementations.
>
> Of cour
2008/8/29 Allison Randal:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>> Current exceptions for the "parrot-" prefix:
>> perl6
>
> Actually, that probably won't be an exception to the "parrot-" prefix on the
> package name, since there are multiple implementations of Perl 6.
Ok, so there will be pugs, perl -Mv6 and rak
Reini Urban wrote:
Problem:
Most packages will not accept packages with /usr/bin/scheme,
/usr/bin/lisp, /usr/bin/forth, /usr/bin/lua, /usr/bin/tclsh
were these are the parrot implementations.
Of course we don't want to hijack existing language executables in the
distribution packages. But,
