Packaging Perl 6 (or rather, Rakudo Star)

2013-03-05 Thread Rob Hoelz
Hi everyone, There was some discussion on #perl6 yesterday on what requirements are necessary for Perl 6 to be considered "production ready", and moritz++ made a quick list (https://gist.github.com/moritz/5082925) of the top of his head including deployment in major free OSes. This is one area wh

Re: Packaging Perl 6 (or rather, Rakudo Star)

2013-03-05 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:13:51AM +0100, Rob Hoelz wrote: > I already have my own package for Arch Linux for Rakudo Star, and I keep > the OS X homebrew package up-to-date as well. I'd like to create an RPM > spec file and a DEB spec file as well. I have two questions: > > 1) Do these spec file

Re: Packaging Perl 6 (or rather, Rakudo Star)

2013-03-05 Thread Rob Hoelz
On 3/5/13 11:44 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:13:51AM +0100, Rob Hoelz wrote: >> I already have my own package for Arch Linux for Rakudo Star, and I keep >> the OS X homebrew package up-to-date as well. I'd like to create an RPM >> spec file and a DEB spec file as well

Re: Packaging Perl 6 (or rather, Rakudo Star)

2013-03-05 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 12:02:01PM +0100, Rob Hoelz wrote: > On 3/5/13 11:44 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > It may also be worth noting/reminding that Rakudo Star has never been > > intended to be the "only" or even "primary" module collection, it's just > > one of the first. It could make good

Re: Packaging Perl 6 (or rather, Rakudo Star)

2013-03-05 Thread Parrot Raiser
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:07 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > Same here. I think "something more appropriate" is much more likely to > arrive with the "go ahead and make" approach than the "hold off" one. :) > I agree with Patrick. Experimenting with the packaging now should flush out the bugs b

Re: Packaging Perl 6 (or rather, Rakudo Star)

2013-03-05 Thread Moritz Lenz
On 03/05/2013 12:02 PM, Rob Hoelz wrote: On 3/5/13 11:44 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:13:51AM +0100, Rob Hoelz wrote: I already have my own package for Arch Linux for Rakudo Star, and I keep the OS X homebrew package up-to-date as well. I'd like to create an RPM spe