Hi Daniel, and welcome! I'm building Rakudo from source on Apple (MacOS), which gives me a later version than I might get with Rakudo-Star. Patrick Spek is the person to ask about Rakudo-Star, and I've copied him on this email. I can't speak to who decides what happens with Jeff Goff's significant Perl6/Raku coding efforts. I'm assuming someone will contact you--here or on Github.
Anyway I've been using Rob Hoelz's excellent Linenoise module instead of Readline to work the Rakudo REPL. I'm actually very happy with Linenoise, but it would be nice to have a choice (Readline didn't work out for me). I'm sure others can chime in here: which is better? Which is more powerful? Maybe the patch you've come up with could be (metaphorically) applied to the successful Raku-Linenoise module as well. Areas of improvement I'd like to see in terms of the REPL are the following: 1. Maybe a way to copy/paste multiple lines in at the REPL command prompt? Or send to the REPL via tmux (maybe in conjunction with Brian Duggan's Tmeta module)? 2. Unicode...Is there a way to improve 'character width' and/or cursor position (the cursor is often far to the right of displayed Unicode characters)? 3. Also Unicode...occasionally I only "partially" delete a Unicode character while in the REPL, which results in a "Malformed termination of UTF-8 string" error. Please save me from my screw-ups, Best, Bill. W. Michels, Ph.D. On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 8:22 PM <d...@foo.ist> wrote: > > Hi fellow Rakuists, > > I’m a total Raku n00b, and I’m looking for guidance. The late Jeff > Goff‘S Readline package doesn’t work on Macs anymore, which makes Rakudo > Star kind of broken in Apple-land — at least it is when installed via > Homebrew. > > I have a patch written, but don’t know whether to ask PAUSE to transfer > the package maintainership to me, fork it (as Term::Readline or > somesuch)... or something else. > > It’s not a hugely complex package, and I can see myself maintaining it. > (I’m currently on the core team of a moderately popular Node.js package, > so I know the drill.) > > I read about Jeff, and he seems like an amazing person. So I want to be > very respectful. > > Please let me know what you think is best. > > Thanks, > Daniel Lathrop > https://daniel.buzz > > p.s. it already feels great to be in the Raku community. Everyone is so > darn nice.
