Re: sound distribution practices

2012-04-07 Thread Jonathan Worthington
On 4/7/2012 19:11, Allison Randal wrote: Okay, instead of just complaining about this, I want to do something about it. The Rakudo packages are so fragile on Debian, that they need special constraints to make sure the Parrot packages are held back until the Rakudo packages are updated. So, why

Re: sound distribution practices

2012-04-07 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 03:24:37PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: These are things that Rakudo shouldn't care about. A bug-fix or performance enhancement in Parrot is good, but doesn't actually affect Rakudo's ability to build or run. Sometimes it does. See the flurry of difficulties we had

Re: sound distribution practices

2012-04-07 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 07:12:19PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: Patrick and I just chatted on the phone, here's a summary of the working scenario we reached: - Rakudo will deliver a Rakudo release for each supported (stable) Parrot release, a few days after the Parrot release. - Debian