Re: can Perl 6 bootstrap itself (downloading modules and such via git)

2016-08-26 Thread Timo Paulssen
On 26/08/16 11:03, Andreas Mueller wrote: > on Windows i have to install git to download a Module > > maybe, one day there is a 'git' written in P6 > > > Andreas I think we should be able to grab modules without using git if we can rely on github and gitlab and whoever hosts modules to give

Re: can Perl 6 bootstrap itself

2016-08-26 Thread Luca Ferrari
I don't see the real problem in having Perl6 requiring Perl5 to build itself, at least not in the long term. So far the world simply cannot survive without Perl5, but one day all applications will be hopefully rewritten in Perl6 and so will be the tools. In the meantime I guess the best and quickie

Re: Killer Features of Perl 6

2016-08-26 Thread Tony Edwardson
Thank you all for your input - I have started writing my talk and will publish my slides when I'm done.I may even video the talk and publish that too Tony On 22/08/2016 16:01, Brock Wilcox wrote: Correct -- there are some excellent REPLs for perl5 such as Devel::REPL and tinyrepl. The advan

Re: can Perl 6 bootstrap itself

2016-08-26 Thread Andreas Mueller
on Windows i have to install git to download a Module maybe, one day there is a 'git' written in P6 Andreas On 25.08.16 17:56, Parrot Raiser wrote: > It's going to be easier to demonstrate stand-alone Perl 6 on Windows > than an *nix machine. If you remove Perl from them, the result will