Packaging Perl 6 (or rather, Rakudo Star)

2013-03-05 Thread Rob Hoelz
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

Re: Packaging Perl 6 (or rather, Rakudo Star)

2013-03-05 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:13:51AM +0100, Rob Hoelz wrote: 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

Re: Packaging Perl 6 (or rather, Rakudo Star)

2013-03-05 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 12:02:01PM +0100, Rob Hoelz wrote: On 3/5/13 11:44 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: It may also be worth noting/reminding that Rakudo Star has never been intended to be the only or even primary module collection, it's just one of the first. It could make good sense to

Re: Packaging Perl 6 (or rather, Rakudo Star)

2013-03-05 Thread Parrot Raiser
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:07 AM, Patrick R. Michaud pmich...@pobox.com wrote: Same here. I think something more appropriate is much more likely to arrive with the go ahead and make approach than the hold off one. :) I agree with Patrick. Experimenting with the packaging now should flush out

Re: Packaging Perl 6 (or rather, Rakudo Star)

2013-03-05 Thread Moritz Lenz
On 03/05/2013 12:02 PM, Rob Hoelz wrote: On 3/5/13 11:44 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:13:51AM +0100, Rob Hoelz wrote: 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