On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:54:57PM +0800, Gav.... wrote:
> Being a relative newcomer to all that is Perl 6, can someone tell me what 
> differences
> I need to know in order to write/amend Perl 6 extension Modules as opposed 
> to
> Perl 5 versions ?

A good starting place is:

  http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/docs/other/porting_howto

> I have downloaded PXPerl for Windows (which seems a bit broken to me atm) 
> and
> wanted to start writing some (fairly basic to start with) Modules.
> 
> As Perl 6 Modules are to work with Perl 5 it makes sense for me to learn 
> this straight off.
> 
> Apologies for intruding on this list, but I see no perl6-modules list 
> anywhere and only
> brief mentions of v6 Modules in places.

perl6-compiler is probably the best list for these kinds of questions,
at the moment, so you're in the right place.

> You are all doing a great job, and I want to do my bit to get Perl 6 
> working - if I can.

Awesome.

> I guess I should us a linux box to keep up to date, best version to go for ?

Not really necessary, we've got quite a few architectures represented.
Linux is only one.

-kolibrie

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