Hi everyone, There was some discussion on #perl6 yesterday on what requirements are necessary for Perl 6 to be considered "production ready", and moritz++ made a quick list (https://gist.github.com/moritz/5082925) of the top of his head including deployment in major free OSes. This is one area where I feel I could be of help, as I feel it's extremely important to have Linux/BSD packages in order to be taken seriously, and it's something that doesn't require intimate knowledge of how Rakudo works.
I already have my own package for Arch Linux for Rakudo Star, and I keep the OS X homebrew package up-to-date as well. I'd like to create an RPM spec file and a DEB spec file as well. I have two questions: 1) Do these spec files belong in the Rakudo Star repository? 2) Which makes more sense: having a Rakudo Star package that depends on a separate Rakudo package (so Rakudo Star would only consist of modules and applications), or having a Rakudo Star package that conflicts with a separate Rakudo package (so users may install one or the other)? I think the former is less confusing (the latter may lead to people asking "well, which one do I install"), but the former is probably a little harder to do. -Rob
