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.

~jerry
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