#712: Some changes are needed to the install system so that Parrot installs in a
fashion that's useable by Rakudo
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Reporter: wayland | Type: patch
Status: new | Priority: normal
Milestone: | Component: install
Version: trunk | Severity: medium
Keywords: | Lang:
Patch: new | Platform:
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Comment(by wayland):
Hmm. A few things:
- I admit that I've kind of dropped out of the Parrot and Rakudo
communities for a bit, and don't expect to be back before December. The
only thing I'm sure of is that when last I tried to build an RPM of
parrot, it didn't work just by getting the release and trying to build it
with the spec file. So the spec file certainly needs to be fixed in some
way.
- You'll notice that all the changes outside the spec file are directed at
getting files in runtime/parrot/include to be included in the spec file
After I made this patch, kid51 and I had some discussions about how things
should be done. My big plan was to make a library for reading and writing
MANIFEST files, and then calling on that from all the places that need
that (apparently we have duplicate code doing that, but the duplicate code
doesn't match 100%, which is probably a bad thing). IIRC, kid51 wasn't so
keen on that, and also said that there was a big discussion coming up on
the subject (unless I'm confusing this with something else). But if I've
remembered correctly, kid51 and I decided just to sit on this ticket until
it had been sorted out whether/how to do a MANIFEST reading/writing
library.
What needs to happen on this is:
- I need to get back into Parrot/Rakudo
- kid51 and I need to revisit the issue together
An alternative would be for someone to try to understand why I created the
patch in the first place, since I've forgotten why (having not installed
Parrot in about 4 months now). As a step towards that, does anyone know
why the files in runtime/parrot/include might be needed? Pmichaud?
Someone? Help! :)
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/712#comment:6>
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