Intriguied by the recent posts on Audrey's blog
(http://pugs.blogs.com/pugs) about Deploying Perl6 Now, I decided to take
a look and see what was possible on a system which runs neither GHC or
Parrot.
I recall hearing about misc/pX/Common/lrep before, but it looks like it's
only a very beginning implementation -- it handles a few simple
constructs, but fails on many others.
Today's blog post says there's a "new Perl5-based Perl6 compiler:"
use v6-pugs;
"hello, world".say;
$ perl -Ilib hello_world.pl
So I thought I'd try it out. Alas, it doesn't work either. First, I had
to install Module::Compile (which, in turn, required Test::Base, which, in
turn, required Spiffy). Then I had to install PadWalker. When all that
was done, it failed with:
Can't locate object method "compile" via package "Pugs::Compiler::Perl6" at
lib/v6.pm line 41.
Compilation failed in require at
lib/../../Pugs-Compiler-Rule/lib/Pugs/Grammar/Rule.pm line 18.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
lib/../../Pugs-Compiler-Rule/lib/Pugs/Grammar/Rule.pm line 18.
Compilation failed in require at
lib/../../Pugs-Compiler-Rule/lib/Pugs/Compiler/Regex.pm line 10.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
lib/../../Pugs-Compiler-Rule/lib/Pugs/Compiler/Regex.pm line 10.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 3.
...propagated at /opt/perl/lib/5.8.8/base.pm line 85.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at lib/../lib/Pugs/Compiler/Perl6.pm line 9.
Compilation failed in require at lib/v6.pm line 40.
What am I missing? Or is it just not possible to run any of this stuff
without GHC?
--
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
