On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:20, Moritz Lenz <[email protected]> wrote: > Gerd Pokorra wrote: >> Why lives 'nqp-rx' at ext/nqp-rx in the parrot sources and on github at >> http://github.com/perl6/nqp-rx? > > It's pretty obvious, but I'll say it anyway: in ex/nqp-rx in the parrot > repository there is only a compiled version of nqp-rx. Which is needed > for building HLLs. > > If I remember correctly, the reasons for NQP-rx being developed outside > of parrot core were (in no particular order) > > *) the ability to chose a parrot revision to work with > *) more technical liberty (regarding coding standards, build system > (parrot's build system isn't designed for bootstrapping compilers) > *) social liberty (giving people commit access to nqp-rx is much less > hassle than giving one to parrot) > *) git > > Patrick, please correct me if I'm wrong on any of these points, or > forgot something crucial > *) different copyright. as this code was completed under a hague grant for tpf, it doesn't belong to parrot foundation and is therefore external to the parrot repository.
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