Hello all,
In the light of renaming to Raku I was wondering if the statement 'use
v6.*' is still useful.
First there is no version 6 of Raku (should be version 0, but that's
another story) and the 'use v5' in the past used for perl5 is also not
used anymore (I think) (it is, I believe, more common to 'use
Inline::Perl5').
Also the 'd' of the Diwali version is a nice touch but my experience is
that this is not accurate enough. I've used some new things of Raku
introduced somewhere in summer 2019 but the version is still 6d. Also
many bugs are fixed which requires newer versions to run right.
So I must warn potential users of the software to install the newest
Raku version, otherwise the programs/modules will run into problems.
It would be nice to have this version extended, or maybe better, the
version spec in META6.json so that the zef module installer could hold
back the installation if the users Raku version is older. It is not
enough to let tests fail on something the Raku compiler cannot handle
because it is does not show that the compiler is too old when zef is
installing modules.
Regards
Marcel
