On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 09:08:21PM -0400, Andrew Whitworth wrote: > What if we did something like bundling?
Isn't this what Rakudo Star does? AFAICT the Star "distribution" is nothing more than a bundle of rakudo + nqp + parrot + some Perl 6 modules, which may be nice from a end user POV, but it's plain wrong from a distribution one. We (Debian) have different source packages for Parrot, Rakudo and NQP (which are managed by two diffent teams) so that we can handle issues and changes separately without the need to rebuild all of them every time one needs to be changed. Bundling them together would just make the Parrot and Rakudo packages more dependant on each other... which is exactly what we are trying to avoid. Also see the third paragraph of [0]. Btw, this also applies to NQP bundling full source of libtommath and dyncall. (/me being one of the Debian Rakudo maintainers) Cheers [0] http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide#Pristine_Upstream_Source -- perl -E'$_=q;$/= @{[@_]};and s;\S+;<inidehG ordnasselA>;eg;say~~reverse'
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