Author: coke Date: Wed Dec 10 07:35:27 2008 New Revision: 33765 Modified: trunk/README
Log: [docs] Cleanup the readme a bit to track change mailing lists, websites, build features, and the dangers (and futility) of "make install" Simplify the make discussion a bit, since we already programmatically have that in Configure.pl. Modified: trunk/README ============================================================================== --- trunk/README (original) +++ trunk/README Wed Dec 10 07:35:27 2008 @@ -59,14 +59,8 @@ The file "myconfig" has an overview of configure settings. -Next, run make: - -For UNIX like systems that come with its own make, 'gmake' should be -used. (On most Linux systems, this is the default make.) - -On Windows systems, use 'nmake'. - -On other systems, just try 'make'. +Next, run make. (Configure.pl will tell you which version of make it +recommends for your system.) Now, the interpreter should build. If you are building the ICU library (this is the default on most systems), you need to use GNU make instead @@ -77,9 +71,8 @@ you may have to delete the installed version of parrot before building a new one. Our apologies. -You can test parrot by running - - make test (or nmake test or gmake test) +You can test parrot by running "make test". You can run the tests in parallel +with "make TEST_JOBS=3 test". You can run the full test suite with @@ -94,6 +87,7 @@ This installs a bunch of files in /usr/local. The parrot executable is in /usr/local/bin. Please note that this feature is currently experimental. +(It's so experimental that you have to read the directions it gives you.) If you want to install Parrot into a non-standard location use: @@ -127,12 +121,15 @@ MAILING LISTS ------------- -The mailing list for parrot is parrot-porters. Subscribe by sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is archived at +The mailing list for parrot is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe by +filling out the form at http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev +It is archived at http://lists.parrot.org/pipermail/parrot-dev/ + +The old development list is archived at http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals and available via NNTP at nntp://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl6.internals -You can also read the list via Google Groups at +You can also read the (old) list via Google Groups at http://groups-beta.google.com/group/perl.perl6.internals FEEDBACK, PATCHES, etc. @@ -144,11 +141,14 @@ WEB SITES --------- -The following web sites have all the Parrot information you need: - http://www.parrotcode.org/ - http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot/ +The following web sites have all the information you need about Parrot: + http://www.parrot.org/ + http://trac.parrot.org/ + http://www.parrotblog.org/ + +And Perl6: + http://rakudo.org/ http://dev.perl.org/perl6/ - http://bugs6.perl.org/perl6/ http://pugscode.org/ Have fun,
