The three files are already hard-linked, no need for soft links. BTW, is there a way to detect hard links in Perl6? Perl5 "stat" operator returns an array whose fourth element is the number of hard links of a file, but I don't see anything like that in the Perl6 docs.
On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > If they are really identical, might it be an idea to use symbolic > links for 2 of them? > That would reduce the code to be stored, maintained, and transmitted, > and make it blatantly obvious if different versions are required. > > On 5/28/17, Nelo Onyiah <nelo.ony...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I presume that's j for JVM and m for MoarVM. > > > > On 28 May 2017 2:42 pm, "Gabor Szabo" <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've just noticed that in /Applications/Rakudo/share/perl6/site/bin/ I > >> have 3 copies > >> of every script. One with a -j and one with a -m at the end just as for > >> zef: > >> > >> zef > >> zef-j > >> zef-m > >> > >> The files seem to be identical. > >> > >> Why are there 3 and what is their purpose? > >> > >> Gabor > >> > > > -- Fernando Santagata
