If rakudobrew is only for core hackers, then why is it on the rakudo
site as the best way to get rakudo?
As for documentation, I googled perl6 debug and find perl6-debug. I am
informed that it is available when perl6 is installed.
I now know that perl6-debug-m is bit rotted, but I quote from 5 December
2012 (https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/a-perl-6-debugger/):
"The debugger has been included with the last few Rakudo * releases. If
you have one of those, you’re all set. Just run *perl6-debug* instead of
*perl6*. It takes the same set of options, so if your normal invocation
involves, for example, using the *-I* flag to set the include path for
modules, it’ll Just Work Like Usual."
I have problems with the debugger because I have not been able to get it
to work from within a module, even one that I have written. The only way
I could get the debugger to work was to include the code of the module
within the text of the program, which makes putting things in modules a
bit silly.
However, I also quote from the same blog: "There’s much more to the
developer experience of a language than its design, features and
implementations. While the language and its implementations are perhaps
the thing developers will spend most time with, the overall experience
will also involve interaction with the community, reading documentation,
using modules and employing various development tools. Thus, it’s
important that Perl 6 make progress on these fronts too."
It seems to me that rather than trying to remove all mention of the
debugger, would be to place a notice on perl6.org or on rakudo.org, and
a notice to the perl6-user forum that perl6-debug has not keep up with
changes to the language and currenlty is not working.
It is a shame that this has happened because it seems a step backwards.
Richard
On Sunday, June 04, 2017 10:12 AM, Zoffix Znet via RT wrote:
On Thu, 01 Jun 2017 22:25:55 -0700, rnhainswo...@gmail.com wrote:
Here is a copy of my session. No perl6-debug.
All the documentation implies I should have the executable. I'm running
Ubuntu 16.04
Which documentation, out of curiosity? rakudobrew is mostly for core hackers,
not end users, so it'd likely be best to remove that documentation.
As for the perl6-debug. It's likely called perl6-debug-m
However, it bitrotted a bit and even if you find it, it won't work ATM. Hoping
someone will find tuits to fix it before next release.
