Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2018.10

ations, reference materials, design documents, and other supporting resources. Tutorials are available under the "docs" directory in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see http://

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2018.06

pment team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the mailing list, or join us on IRC \#perl6 on freenode. -- Steve Mynott cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5

Re: start up delay?

ave a very fast machine and it takes > about seven see for some of my Perl 6 stuff to get past the > ruminating phase and start running. > > Any workaround for this, or is this just growing pains for Perl 6? > > Many thanks, > -T -- Steve Mynott cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5

Re: I need regex help

stead of the numbers in braces, > >>> it's the ** operator with a range after it: \d ** 1..4 > >>> (Remember that spaces do nothing in a P6 regex, so you can use them > >>> for readability or to separate the range from what follows, etc.) > >>>

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2018.04

esentations, reference materials, design documents, and other supporting resources. Some Perl 6 tutorials are available under the "docs" directory in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible.

Re: latest rakudo srtar not found

The old link redirect should work now thanks to Zoffix (subject to possible browser caching). Try now. S On 16 April 2018 at 17:04, Steve Mynott wrote: > The old link is still supposed to work! And the issue being debugged > even as I type :-) > > S > > On 16 April 2018

Re: latest rakudo srtar not found

t; (JIT).msi. Messages returned are >> >> Error downloading remote file: One or more errors occurred. >> Inner Exception: Remote server returned 404: Not Found >> >> Is the file stored at another location perhaps? >> >> Regards >> Marcel -- Steve Mynott cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5

Re: issues with zef

le someone on this mailing list uses them and is able to help but it's more likely Fedora lists can help. You could try differents RPMs from https://github.com/nxadm/rakudo-pkg#rakudo-pkg which are more closely associated with the Rakudo Project. You are more likely

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2018.01

r the "docs" directory in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the perl6-compi...@perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. -- Steve Mynott cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5

Re: p6 for w32

http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo/ >>> >>> The 32 bit version is two years old. >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> -T > > > On 11/30/2017 01:50 AM, Steve Mynott wrote: >> I'm not aware of anyone having built a 32 bit Windows in some time

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.10

other supporting resources. Some Perl 6 tutorials are available under the "docs" directory in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the perl6-compi...@perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: zef install --/test cro

ry 'libssl.so' > > in any at /home/ngaywood/rakudo-star-2017.07/install/share/perl6/[snip] > > > > -- > Norman Gaywood, Computer Systems Officer > School of Science and Technology > University of New England > Armidale NSW 2351, Australia > > ngayw...@une.edu.au http://turing.une.edu.au/~ngaywood > Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 Mobile: +61 (0)4 7862 0062 > > Please avoid sending me Word or Power Point attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Is win 32 being worked on?

to install one tool rather than two. 32 bit Windows should compile Rakudo if you install Strawberry Perl and have both gcc and gmake in the path. Note you need to use cmd.exe as a shell (not bash) and gmake rather than Window's usual nmake. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Fwd: Re: Is win 32 being worked on?

not 32 bit W7.) > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates > allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonadhttp://sinenomine.net -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.07

On 25 July 2017 at 16:33, Stephen Wilcoxon wrote: > I don't see anything in the notes (though I may have missed it) about JVM. > I thought the plan was to get JVM functional again (though likely still > lagging MoarVM feature support) with the 2017.07 release? There are comments in the README "P

Re: Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.07

On 25 July 2017 at 16:23, Darren Duncan wrote: > There's a key difference however. > > While programming languages continue to evolve, the expectation is that a > production-complete Rakudo would always be a functional superset (or equal > to) the Perl 6 language specification which is current at

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.07

the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the perl6-compi...@perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Is win 32 being worked on?

udo Star". You can download it from >>> >>> https://rakudo.perl6.org/downloads/star/ >> >> But no recent win 32-bit. > > > https://rakudo.perl6.org/downloads/star/rakudo-star-2016.01-x86%20(no%20JIT).msi > > seems to be the last one -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Compiling Rakudo in parallel

On 26 May 2017 at 07:04, Gabor Szabo wrote: > Would someone update the README that comes with Rakudo Star with this > information, please? I don't see any point since I think he is basically saying it's not worth trying to compile in parallel -- the bits which compile slowly can't be compiled in

Re: Task::Star and Panda

On 25 May 2017 at 09:59, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > I have just suggested a Task::Popular module on the IRC channel, and > feedback so far is positive. > > I will work on it at the weekend. Hopefully have a module ready soon. > > Basically, I will use my work on the most recursively cited module

Re: Task::Star and Panda

On 25 May 2017 at 08:00, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > I have not seen a discussion on this Forum about removing Task::Star. It > seems to me to be a bad idea. The discussion is at https://github.com/tadzik/Task-Star/issues/13 > There is the distribution for Rakudo Star and it is useful to have a

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.04

o Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the perl6-compi...@perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: $*DISTRO

~ > Computers are like air conditioners. > They malfunction when you open windows > ~~ -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: print to STDERR problem

out of date. Do *not* use as reference! > > To see what is currently happening visit http://www.perl6.org/ > > > And then a bit lower you can see: > > Date: 4 Aug 2000 > Last Modified: 14 Sep 2000 > > > thanks > - Timo > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: per 5 converter?

> Just my two cents. > > Best regards, > > -Tom -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.01

other supporting resources. Some Perl 6 tutorials are available under the "docs" directory in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: JIT?

The most important difference is that the JIT version is 64 bit and the "no JIT" is 32 bit. So if you are running a modern Windows you almost certainly want the 64 bit (JIT) version Also the JIT version is a more recent version. S

Re: debugger dies on me

s > persist in the deep. I will try to clean up and reinstall. (I thought I did > that but evidently not thoroughly enough). > > thanks, > > > Steve Mynott schreef op 2016-12-05 12:28: > >> I can see references to /home/theo/.rakudobrew which shouldn't exist >>

Re: debugger dies on me

l6-debug.moarvm:) > from :1 (/home/theo/.rakudobrew/moar-n > om/install/share/perl6/runtime/perl6-debug.moarvm:) > from :1 (/home/theo/.rakudobrew/moar-n > om/install/share/perl6/runtime/perl6-debug.moarvm:) > > thanks, > > -- > Theo van den Heuvel > Van den Heuvel HLT Consultancy > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.11

On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm pleased to announce the November 2016 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable production distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the November 2016 release is available from . This is the fifth post-C

Re: What is rakudo-star?

They malfunction when you open windows > ~~~~~~ > > > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: What is rakudo-star?

hy there is not a star release of 2016.10 for windows ? > > Because nobody one yet. I'm happy to upload it for you if you provide it. > > Cheers, > Moritz > > -- > Moritz Lenz > https://deploybook.com/ -- https://perlgeek.de/ -- https://perl6.org/ > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Where to start?

; #!/usr/bin/env /path/to/your/rakudo/inst/bin/perl6 > > use v6; > > > > Also, do I need to run perl6 through a compiler or > > does it compile on the fly like perl 5? > > There's no separate compilation step. > > Cheers, > Moritz > > -- > Moritz Lenz > https://deploybook.com/ -- https://perlgeek.de/ -- https://perl6.org/ > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.10

On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm pleased to announce the October 2016 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable production distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the October 2016 release is available from http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/. This is the fourth post-Chri

Re: What's involved in the creation of a new Rakudo * version?

, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > We "Star" users are falling rather behind the compiler versions. > I'd like to help catch up, if the processes involved are sufficiently > mundane. > Is there a checklist of the required tasks from which to work? > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: lwp. Where are the directions?

hoping > to find the directions on the web,) > > Many thanks, > -T > > -- > ~~ > Computers are like air conditioners. > They malfunction when you open windows > ~~~~~~ > > > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Killer Features of Perl 6

enefits > of Perl 6 to a bunch of Perl 5 experts. > I am interested in your opinion on which of the many features of Perl 6 > are the main reasons why anyone would migrate to Perl 6 from Perl 5. > Any opinions greatly appreciated. > > Tony > > > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.07

contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the perl6-compi...@perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Fwd: perl6 INC

The video I was talking about is now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu8auCKCUN4 On 11 May 2016 at 15:38, Steve Mynott wrote: > It's not a hack and the use of SHA files is basic to the requirements > of how Perl 6 precomp works (totally different to how Perl 5 modules > are use

Re: Fwd: perl6 INC

I would also suggest stealing ideas from other packagers Debian have Rakudo 2016.04 in sid https://packages.debian.org/sid/rakudo They have also split out nqp and moarvm packages. S On 11 May 2016 at 16:14, Steve Mynott wrote: > Using an install outside the RPM/spec framework but also us

Re: Fwd: perl6 INC

t;> Happily, it's not too hard to package a single compiler, e.g. rakudo-moar. >> And as long as you're comfy with rpmbuild, you can knock out a few modules, >> then script the process. I no longer have the actual code, but my cpan2rpm >> script was really short and simple. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Fwd: perl6 INC

;s using a separate database, opaque to filesystem tools. I > hope this is just a temporary hack until a mature solution is hammered out. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Fwd: perl6 INC

rakudo, and call the rpm rakudo, unless > they can fix the problems so panda gets built and installed. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: perl6 INC

.04 but it comes without panda. >>>>> So I try to install panda and its requirements (Shell::Command, ...) >>>>> >>>>> I think the best place for those libraries are in /usr/share/perl6/lib >>>>> or >>>>> /usr/share/perl6/site|vendor/lib >>>>> >>>>> Unfortunately once installed, perl6 cannot find them because it looks >>>>> into >>>>> /usr/share/perl6/ or /usr/share/perl6/site|vendor/, not in >>>>> sub-directory >>>>> lib >>>>> in those folders. >>>>> >>>>> So what is the best/common place to install Perl6 modules? >>>>> Alternatively how to change the Perl6 behavior to look into lib >>>>> sub-directories. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers > > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: perl6 INC

perl6/site|vendor/lib >>> >>> Unfortunately once installed, perl6 cannot find them because it looks >>> into >>> /usr/share/perl6/ or /usr/share/perl6/site|vendor/, not in sub-directory >>> lib >>> in those folders. >>> >>> So what is the best/common place to install Perl6 modules? >>> Alternatively how to change the Perl6 behavior to look into lib >>> sub-directories. >>> >>> Cheers -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: perl6 INC

erl6/ or /usr/share/perl6/site|vendor/, not in sub-directory lib > in those folders. > > So what is the best/common place to install Perl6 modules? > Alternatively how to change the Perl6 behavior to look into lib > sub-directories. > > Cheers -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Difficulty Installing Module on Latest Rakudo Star

th the Latest > Rakudo Star (2016.04). The installation fails on a dependency. > > Digest::HMAC can't be installed using > > sudo panda --prefix=/Applications/Rakudo/share/perl6/site/bin/ --force > install Digest::HMAC > > The error message says > > Could not find Digest at line 6 in: > > /Applications/Rakudo/share/perl6/site > > /Applications/Rakudo/share/perl6/vendor > > /Applications/Rakudo/share/perl6 > > > However, Digest itself is installed. It's visible in the file system browser > and my .per.6/panda/state file lists it as having been successfully > installed. > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Joe > > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.04

aterials, design documents, and other supporting resources. Some Perl 6 tutorials are available under the "docs" directory in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the mailing list, or join us on IRC \#perl6 on freenode. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: books on p6?

ll, >> anybody knows of ongoing efforts for Perl 6 related books? >> I suspect O'reilly title >> <http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596007379.do> is pretty much out >> of date, or am I wrong? >> >> Thanks, >> Luca > > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Installing both from rakudobrew and Rakudo Star

ome > directory? > > Thanks to all who worked on getting Rakudo Star yesterday and who > contributed to the earlier thread. > > Jim Keenan -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: is there a Perl 5 converter?

rised if they work particularly well yet in producing code which runs straight off. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Perl 6 Advocacy Suggestion

oundation. > > Audrey Tang's article (based on information on the citation page only) > doesn't seem to fit the specific comparison I think is needed, but the > article may be useful background for any new author. > > Of course there may already be such an article in academia, but > apparently not in the computer science education realm. > > Best regards, > > -Tom -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: release?

;> >>>> I'm a bit confused, there is a major release for Perl 6, but I know >>>> wonder if this is the 6.0.0 release or when this will be? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> web >>>> >>> >>> >> > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Perl6 build failure on Ubuntu 14.04, 32-bit

--backends=moar --gen-moar > --git-reference=/home/ctech/.rakudobrew/bin/../git_reference > --make-install at /home/ctech/.rakudobrew/bin/rakudobrew line 57. > main::run('/usr/bin/perl Configure.pl --backends=moar --gen-moar > --git-r...') called at /home/ctech/.rakudobrew/bin/rakudobrew line 377 > main::build_impl('moar', undef, '') called at > /home/ctech/.rakudobrew/bin/rakudobrew line 113 > > Thanks for any help! > > Best regards, > > -Tom -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Missing documentation

5to6 > is mentioned in several places, but returns a 404. Is it obsolete, or > just misplaced? -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: .perl method: any plans for allowing output format changes?

rown filter of some kind. Providing some way to > duplicate the output of Data::Dumper would be handy for someone > converting Perl 5 to Perl 6. > > Maybe we need a Perl 6 version of Data::Dumper. > > Best, > > -Tom -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Re-installation of Perl 6 (Rakudo Star) via rakudobrew on Linux

r LWP::Simple: Tests failed > > > > Questions: > > 1. Is there a better or proper way to upgrade to a new Rakudo Star release? > > 2. Is the failure of LWP::Simple a bug or just some weird > misconfiguration on my system? > > Thanks. > > Cheers! > > -Tom -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Using C structs containing pointers from NativeCall?

. } sub gdbm_store(OpaquePointer $dbf, Datum $key, Datum $content, int $flag) returns Int is native(LIB) { ... } my $dbf = gdbm_open('foo.dat', 512, 2, 0o755, ""); my $key = Datum.new(:p(MyPointer(:s("foo")),:s(3)); my $val = $key; my $ret = gdbm_store($dbf, $key, $val, 0); -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Date truncated-to method argument?

24 > say $c.truncated-to("year") 2012-01-01 Which is correct the code or docs? -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott