Hello Patrick Sorry for the very late reply
On Friday 23 October 2015 12:05:34 Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > I think I can answer this to some extent. "Perl 6" is a language, > much like "C", "Java", or "JavaScript". Just as we would not confuse > "gcc" with the C programming language, or V8 with JavaScript, one > should not treat "rakudo" and "Perl 6" as being equivalent. > [...] Many thanks for the clarification. > To return to the question of "What should be the basis for (Debian's) > packaging of Perl 6?"... well, the answers just given in this thread > are reasonable. It's completely reasonable to say "We'll just package > up Rakudo Star, and let the upstream folks decide what makes for a > good Perl 6 environment." It's also reasonable to do things similar > to the way Perl 5 is packaged in Debian, where installing "Perl" > (Perl 5) generally ends up loading multiple .deb packages ranging > from "perl-base" and "perl-modules" to others with "-perl" in the > name that encapsulate popular CPAN modules. Given the work already done on moar and nqp, I'll try to just switch the upstream source of debian-rakudo from vanilla-rakudo to rakudo-star. Thus our rakudo package will contain rakudo, panda and the modules selected by rakudo star team > I hope this helps clarify things a bit. Yes, thanks a bunch All the best -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org
