On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 07:45:46AM +0100, Jerome Quelin wrote: > 2- when will rakudo be able to use an installed parrot?
Today. In fact, since the August 2009 release Rakudo can _only_ use an installed Parrot. > since i don't want to bother updating parrot twice, i currently don't > ship rakudo on mandriva. i know rakudo people will say that they want it > that way to have the latest & greatest parrot bits, but then why don't > they "just" require latest parrot version as dependency? We already do this. Each monthly release of Rakudo is tied to the latest monthly release of Parrot (it has always been this way). Parrot currently has a policy of designating the January and July releases as "supported releases", but it's entirely impractical for Rakudo to limit itself to these 6-month releases. (To see *why* it's impractical, imagine that for the past 4 months Rakudo releases had limited themselves to the capabilities present in Parrot's July release, and would continue to do so through next January.) There is a proposal to change Parrot to a shorter cycle for these supported releases, but my expectation is that the pace of development will require Rakudo to continue to target the Parrot monthly releases. Pm _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
