Back at home, I tested the Perl6 shortcut in the start menu. It's not what I was looking for.
I was expecting something similar to the developper command prompt of Visual Studio. Something like this: * Open a console window where PATH is set up to find everything related to Perl 6 * Be able to run a command like "perl6 my_script.pl" and have a look at the result At the moment, the shortcut only opens an interactive shell. I never had use for such a shell - regardless of the language (personal opinion, of course). For example, you can define C:\rakudo\bin\perl6-developer-console-startup.cmd as follows: @echo OFF SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\rakudo\bin echo Welcome to the Perl 6 developer console. call perl6 -v echo Type 'perl6 your_script.pl' to run your_script.pl @echo ON And then create a shortcut C:\rakudo\bin\Perl6 Developer Console.lnk with the following command: %comspec% /k "C:\rakudo\bin\perl6-developer-console-startup.cmd" It will open a console, set the path, print perl version, and a welcome message. 2014-09-14 14:07 GMT+02:00 Tobias Leich <em...@froggs.de>: > There is already a shurtcut to the perl6 interpreter (REPL) in the start > menu. > And since the msi is for windows only, we don't have to care about linux > and mac here :o) > > But I'd propose more links perhaps... > rakudo.org > perl6.org > docs.perl6.org > maybe even one to the freenode webchat > > Thoughts? > > Am 14.09.2014 um 13:58 schrieb Alex: > > Hi! > > > > After I had a look at the book, I would say yes, please add to book to > the installer. > > And please add a start menu entry, with 2 shortcuts: > > One to the book and > > One to a console where one can immediately run perl6 (where perl6 is > added to path) > > > > This idea should be portable, providing shortcuts on Mac or any other > Linux box should, work, too. > > > > Best regards and thanks for all the answers! > > > >> Am 11.09.2014 um 10:56 schrieb Tobias Leich <em...@froggs.de>: > >> > >> My question would be: shall we install the book too, and add the book > >> and useful links to the start menu? > >> > >>> Am 11.09.2014 um 10:29 schrieb Kamil Kułaga: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Install path is known limitation > >>> https://github.com/rakudo/star/issues/10 If you want custom path you > >>> need to compile it from source for now > >>> > >>> Where to begin? > >>> > >>> I propose to start: > >>> http://perlgeek.de/en/article/5-to-6 to know biggest differences > >>> > >>> then: > >>> http://doc.perl6.org/language.html and of course rest of > >>> http://doc.perl6.org/ > >>> > >>> If you want something really verbose http://perlcabal.org/syn/ Even > >>> though it is mainly targeted to compiler authors it great because is > >>> the most complete > >>> > >>> Also http://perl6.org contains link to other resources > >>> > >>> I hope didn't write to much for a first time > >>> > >>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Alex Becker <asb.c...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>>> Hi! > >>>> > >>>> I downloaded rakudo-star-2014.08-moar.msi. > >>>> When it was done, luckily, I noticed that it installed on C:\rakudo. > >>>> It was luck because no message indicated that install location and I > found > >>>> it only because I checked if the installer would really put it on my > small > >>>> OS SSD (= bad). > >>>> > >>>> Then, I searched for the documentation. I'm sorry, I didn't find it. > Where > >>>> is it? I expected some doc folder, a web page, or a link in the start > menu > >>>> (I like that best). > >>>> > >>>> Is there a "getting started" guide? > >>>> > >>>> I want to check if some of my scripts work with Perl 6. > >>>> > >>>> Best regards, > >>>> Alex > >
