Re: [perl #130500] [LTA] Download Page on Rakudo.org

install all > of Rakudo Star's modules. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #132183] Insufficient debug messages from zef/perl6.bat when package build fails

in sub at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\sources\3393EDA469A9E8925A633FF7A533AB41141495DA > (Zef::Client) line 520 >in method install at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\sources\3393EDA469A9E8925A633FF7A533AB41141495DA > (Zef::Client) line 631 >in sub MAIN at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\sources\ED3033E8712BCF9F6DE53678B14A54705DF211A6 > (Zef::CLI) line 152 >in block at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\resources\DC5F87DA28311BE6F3A731229527E5C4A2F12716 > line 1 >in sub MAIN at C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\bin\zef line 2 >in block at C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\bin\zef line 2 > > Is this a bug in zef or in perl6.bat? > > Am I expected to read through the source code on the lines mentioned in > the stack trace? > > It would be much more useful to see some diagnostics about which > compiler the Build package is trying to use (if any!), whether it has > failed to find it and what it is actually trying to accomplish. > > Regards, > Ville Koskinen -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #132183] Insufficient debug messages from zef/perl6.bat when package build fails

t => IO::Pipe, err => IO::Pipe, exitcode => 255, > signal => 0, command => ["perl -e \"use v5.18;\""]) >> > > Problem isn't lack of Perl 5: > > PS C:\rakudo> perl -v > > This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 0 (v5.26.0) built for >

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.10

other supporting resources. Some Perl 6 tutorials are available under the "docs" directory in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2018.01

r the "docs" directory in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. -- Steve Mynott cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5

Re: [perl #128520] [META][RT][RFC] Consider migrating from RT

issues is opened, then for me all issues raised in this >> ticket will be resolved. > > It was opened awhile ago. > > …and based on the recent usage, seems GitHub's ticket tracker is preferred by > users, so as far as this ticket goes, I think it can be c

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2018.04

esentations, reference materials, design documents, and other supporting resources. Some Perl 6 tutorials are available under the "docs" directory in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible.

Re: [perl #128154] [BUG] Cannot use qqx in rakudo star on windows7

kes work just fine. Default is 852. I'm very supprised because I use > unicode encoding all the the time and never had such issue. For me it would > be better to detect if codepage is set to 852 and warn user that perl6 may > not work well. Shall we close it or leave defect fo

Re: [perl #128154] [BUG] Cannot use qqx in rakudo star on windows7

I'm not sure. Probably your idea of warning about detected encoding is better. S On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 at 09:58, Kamil Kułaga via RT wrote: > > Will it work fine for utf-16 users? > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:16 AM Steve Mynott via RT > wrote: > > > > Maybe the Wind

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2018.06

pment team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the mailing list, or join us on IRC \#perl6 on freenode. -- Steve Mynott cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2018.10

ations, reference materials, design documents, and other supporting resources. Tutorials are available under the "docs" directory in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see http://

Re: [perl #122741] Dead link

ewbie-friendly > (because we do want to cater to newcomers, it's just that sometimes we fail > to.) > > Please tell me if there's more I can do to improve it! -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #123758] panda doesn't cope well when projects.json isn't a JSON document

s.json as > JSON: Unable to parse expression in array; couldn't find final ']' > > (this is an example where I added garbage in front of the closing ']') > > Cheers, > Moritz > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #127308] Configure.pl with moar fails to find C compiler on older Darwin

/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1/darwin-2level > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.22.1/darwin-2level > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.22.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.2 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl > . > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #127485] "panda look SomeModule" makes perl6 hang (!!)

16.01 > implementing Perl 6.c. > > ....and the latest Panda (no version supplied). -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #127173] [BUG] Cannot build on Alpine Linux

stall) before the build would finish. Compiler used was gcc 5.3. S On 5 January 2016 at 23:20, Tobias Leich via RT wrote: > libuv does not like to build here, which is a dependency of MoarVM. > Though, that does not mean that we cannot do something about that. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Very small feature suggestion

t. >> >> How much work would it be to print "To return to the command line, >> type exit or ^D" when first invoked? > > > I think this is a great idea. There is also precedent for a REPL to print a > similar statement like "for help type this". -- Darren Duncan > > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.04

aterials, design documents, and other supporting resources. Some Perl 6 tutorials are available under the "docs" directory in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the mailing list, or join us on IRC \#perl6 on freenode. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Release #101 (2016.07)

tion to cut a release this month, so you will > likely see one in the next couple of weeks. > > Cheers, > ZZ > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #127750] Intermittent failure on t/04-nativecall/13-union.t

7 . >> > >> > I suggest closing this ticket, and thus removing the blocker for >> > 2016.03. >> > >> > >> > Liz >> >> It's still failing here for me. >> > Has anybody seen this recently? I suspect it was fixed by 6733e927ceb1aeff0 > in MoarVM, which addressed a GC bug in CUnion that torture testing drove out. > That was fixed back in April, and I don't recall seeing the test fail since > then. > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.07

contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #125501] rakudo moar does not compile on Windows using latest git

I used the gcc from Strawberry Perl (SP) successfully to build Rakudo Star 2016.07 a week or two ago. I think the first error (equinox) is due to using nmake (Microsoft) rather the gmake which ships with SP -- you may need to remove nmake from the PATH. The second error (Will's) is due to using t

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.10

On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm pleased to announce the October 2016 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable production distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the October 2016 release is available from http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/. This is the fourth post-Chri

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.11

On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm pleased to announce the November 2016 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable production distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the November 2016 release is available from . This is the fifth post-C

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.01

other supporting resources. Some Perl 6 tutorials are available under the "docs" directory in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #130847] perl6 zef not working on windows 7

EB9AFDF1EEEB07B52A1B75537C31 > (Zef::CLI) line 307 > in block at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\resources\1BB781E6A0355D520C9B0E40400A3186CFE69967 > l > > > -- > Radek -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.04

o Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.07

the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.07

I've just uploaded the Win64 version and I'm still building the Mac one (which won't take long) S On 24 July 2017 at 20:29, wrote: > > Quoting Darren Duncan : > >> On 2017-07-24 11:40 AM, Steve Mynott wrote: >>> >>> A useful and usable product

Re: Verifiable Releases/The Build System is Ridiculous

gly enough about this to actually do the work you can fork the repo and make changes in your own branch. We would actively encourage contributions and it's easier to evaluate actual code changes than emailed suggestions. But be aware talk is cheap and code costs time. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Verifiable Releases/The Build System is Ridiculous

>> On 27 July 2017 at 09:13, R0b0t1 wrote: > Of course there is still the problem of communicating the release keys > to someone in the first place, but if the release key is on a public > keyserver and its ID is referenced on the project site somewhere that > typically works well enough. The ma

Re: Verifiable Releases/The Build System is Ridiculous

On 28 July 2017 at 11:00, Timo Paulssen wrote: > On 28/07/17 10:57, Steve Mynott wrote: >> Yes we ship binary blobs to bootstrap. I spent a day trying to >> reproduce the current binary blobs and it's not possible. Well maybe >> it is possible if you reproduce th

Re: Verifiable Releases/The Build System is Ridiculous

On 28 July 2017 at 11:00, Timo Paulssen wrote: > On 28/07/17 10:57, Steve Mynott wrote: >> Yes we ship binary blobs to bootstrap. I spent a day trying to >> reproduce the current binary blobs and it's not possible. Well maybe >> it is possible if you reproduce th

Re: Verifiable Releases/The Build System is Ridiculous

efects. The more important question is whether defects are >>> important. >>> >> >> That is a decent enough explanation. If anyone can chime in with >> specifics I am still interested, as I don't see how learning the dance >> for submodules is any different than learning the dance for Git in >> general. That explanation makes sense if submodules were investigated >> before being used in depth, but >> > > Whoops. > > That explanation makes sense if submodules were investigated before > being used in depth, but someone already commented and said that they > were being used but were abandoned. > > R0b0t1. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #131815] `zef search` fails after installing `rakudo-star-2017.07-x86_64 (JIT).msi` on Windows 10 Home x64

41141495DA > (Zef::Client) line 398 >in sub MAIN at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\sources\ED3033E8712BCF9F6DE53678B14A54705DF211A6 > (Zef::CLI) line 189 >in block at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\resources\DC5F87DA28311BE6F3A731229527E5C4A2F12716 > line 1 >in sub MAIN at c:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\bin\zef line 2 >in block at c:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\bin\zef line 2 > > > -- > C-x C-c -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #131814] quote bug in shell command on windows

ot;foo" > > This bug effectively prevents from shelling out to a program while using > quoted strings as arguments. > > tx for listening -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #130500] [LTA] Download Page on Rakudo.org

install all > of Rakudo Star's modules. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #132183] Insufficient debug messages from zef/perl6.bat when package build fails

in sub at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\sources\3393EDA469A9E8925A633FF7A533AB41141495DA > (Zef::Client) line 520 >in method install at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\sources\3393EDA469A9E8925A633FF7A533AB41141495DA > (Zef::Client) line 631 >in sub MAIN at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\sources\ED3033E8712BCF9F6DE53678B14A54705DF211A6 > (Zef::CLI) line 152 >in block at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\resources\DC5F87DA28311BE6F3A731229527E5C4A2F12716 > line 1 >in sub MAIN at C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\bin\zef line 2 >in block at C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\bin\zef line 2 > > Is this a bug in zef or in perl6.bat? > > Am I expected to read through the source code on the lines mentioned in > the stack trace? > > It would be much more useful to see some diagnostics about which > compiler the Build package is trying to use (if any!), whether it has > failed to find it and what it is actually trying to accomplish. > > Regards, > Ville Koskinen -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #132183] Insufficient debug messages from zef/perl6.bat when package build fails

t => IO::Pipe, err => IO::Pipe, exitcode => 255, > signal => 0, command => ["perl -e \"use v5.18;\""]) >> > > Problem isn't lack of Perl 5: > > PS C:\rakudo> perl -v > > This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 0 (v5.26.0) built for >

[perl #131814] quote bug in shell command on windows

There does seem to be a quoting bug in Windows shell but none of the above examples show it. See #132183: Insufficient debug messages from zef/perl6.bat when package build fails I propose this ticket be closed.

[perl #131814] quote bug in shell command on windows

I don't think this is a bug in the shell command on windows since cmd.exe behaves differently to Bourne type shells. UNIX $ echo "foo" foo Windows C:\Windows\system32>echo "foo" "foo"

Re: [perl #128520] [META][RT][RFC] Consider migrating from RT

issues is opened, then for me all issues raised in this >> ticket will be resolved. > > It was opened awhile ago. > > …and based on the recent usage, seems GitHub's ticket tracker is preferred by > users, so as far as this ticket goes, I think it can be c

Re: [perl #128154] [BUG] Cannot use qqx in rakudo star on windows7

kes work just fine. Default is 852. I'm very supprised because I use > unicode encoding all the the time and never had such issue. For me it would > be better to detect if codepage is set to 852 and warn user that perl6 may > not work well. Shall we close it or leave defect fo

Re: [perl #128154] [BUG] Cannot use qqx in rakudo star on windows7

I'm not sure. Probably your idea of warning about detected encoding is better. S On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 at 09:58, Kamil Kułaga via RT wrote: > > Will it work fine for utf-16 users? > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:16 AM Steve Mynott via RT > wrote: > > > > Maybe the Wind

Re: [perl #123758] panda doesn't cope well when projects.json isn't a JSON document

s.json as > JSON: Unable to parse expression in array; couldn't find final ']' > > (this is an example where I added garbage in front of the closing ']') > > Cheers, > Moritz > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

[perl #126927] [BUG] Spurious warning when trying to smartmatch num64 against Num in Rakudo

Bisected to f457007181bb6e2dcb6aefe857f36d648ae38401

Re: [perl #127308] Configure.pl with moar fails to find C compiler on older Darwin

/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1/darwin-2level > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.22.1/darwin-2level > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.22.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.2 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl > . > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #131815] `zef search` fails after installing `rakudo-star-2017.07-x86_64 (JIT).msi` on Windows 10 Home x64

41141495DA > (Zef::Client) line 398 >in sub MAIN at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\sources\ED3033E8712BCF9F6DE53678B14A54705DF211A6 > (Zef::CLI) line 189 >in block at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\resources\DC5F87DA28311BE6F3A731229527E5C4A2F12716 > line 1 >in sub MAIN at c:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\bin\zef line 2 >in block at c:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\bin\zef line 2 > > > -- > C-x C-c -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #131814] quote bug in shell command on windows

ot;foo" > > This bug effectively prevents from shelling out to a program while using > quoted strings as arguments. > > tx for listening -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott