On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Moritz Lenz <mor...@faui2k3.org> wrote: > On 01/04/2011 03:19 AM, gvim wrote: >> Does this mean I have no option but to install git in order to keep my Perl >> 6 up to date? > > No. You can download and install a release tarball of parrot, and then > point rakudo's Configure.pl to the installed parrot. Only if you use the > --gen-parrot option, git needs to be available. > > Cheers, > Moritz >
gen-parrot *could* try to fallback on the svn interface to github, but I imagine for macports, a better alternative is to make the rakudo port depend on an appropriate parrot port, rather than trying to build parrot itself. -- Will "Coke" Coleda