Re: Installing both from rakudobrew and Rakudo Star

2016-02-04 Thread Steve Mynott
>From the recently updated http://www.perl6.org/downloads/ % wget http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/rakudo-star-2016.01.tar.gz % tar xfz rakudo-star-2016.01.tar.gz % cd rakudo-star-2016.01 # perl Configure.pl --gen-moar --prefix /opt/rakudo-star-2016.01 # mak

Installing both from rakudobrew and Rakudo Star

2016-02-04 Thread James E Keenan
Follow-up questions to those I posed on perl6-users today. So I have successfully used rakudobrew to build moar and panda. That perl6 executable is located here: $ which perl6 /home/jkeenan/.rakudobrew/bin/perl6 Now, suppose I *also* wish to install Rakudo Star. I've downloaded the rakudo-s

Announce: Windows MSI Installers for release 2016.01

2016-02-04 Thread Tobias Leich
The Windows MSI installers are now available, coming again in two versions. One installer targets x86 (32bit) platforms, and the other installer targets x86_64 (64bit) platforms (probably Windows 7 or better). Only the version for x86_64 comes with JIT enabled. The two MSIs are available from h

RT Problems (and Perl 6 debug process)

2016-02-04 Thread Tom Browder
The thread I started on the Perl 6 seems to have received a lot of attention, but no one has yet to help me with my RT problem, to wit, I have received no reply from: perlbug-ad...@perl.org about how in the world to get the views others have told me I should see. I have tried on both Linux and

Re: Confused about rakudobrew and Rakudo Star

2016-02-04 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 7:44 AM, Brock Wilcox wrote: > I see Moritz replied to this also saying that the tarball is the way to > go. I'd love to know what I'm missing out on by doing it this way. > Probably nothing right now. The big issue will come later: rakudo HEAD will be working toward a v6

Re: Confused about rakudobrew and Rakudo Star

2016-02-04 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi, On 02/04/2016 01:44 PM, Brock Wilcox wrote: If my understanding is correct (might not be), the tarball should be ALMOST equivalent to: rakudobrew build moar 2016.01.1 # Install rakudo 2016.01.1 rakudobrew global 2016.01.1 # Make this the default rakudobrew build p

Re: Confused about rakudobrew and Rakudo Star

2016-02-04 Thread Brock Wilcox
If my understanding is correct (might not be), the tarball should be ALMOST equivalent to: rakudobrew build moar 2016.01.1 # Install rakudo 2016.01.1 rakudobrew global 2016.01.1 # Make this the default rakudobrew build panda # Build panda for this rakudo pa

Re: Confused about rakudobrew and Rakudo Star

2016-02-04 Thread Moritz Lenz
On 02/04/2016 01:26 PM, James E Keenan wrote: On 02/03/2016 10:48 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 10:30 PM, James E Keenan wrote: I am evidently confused as to the relationship, if any, between the 'rakudobrew' utility and the Rakudo::Star distribution. In short: rakudo

Re: Confused about rakudobrew and Rakudo Star

2016-02-04 Thread James E Keenan
On 02/03/2016 10:48 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 10:30 PM, James E Keenan wrote: I am evidently confused as to the relationship, if any, between the 'rakudobrew' utility and the Rakudo::Star distribution. In short: rakudobrew is for the folks who want to track the rapid