Re: sound distribution practices

2012-04-09 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 08:42:21PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote: > On 04/08/2012 06:53 PM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 11:09:30AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 03:23:26PM +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > >> >

Re: sound distribution practices

2012-04-09 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 10:13:37AM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: > On 04/08/2012 10:01 AM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > > > > The parrotapi-* thing would avoid an update of the parrot package, but > > there's > > nothing that would avoid an update of, say, libdata-

Re: sound distribution practices

2012-04-09 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 08:27:26AM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: > On 04/08/2012 07:13 AM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > >> - Debian will package each supported release of Parrot. > > > > Isn't this what's already happening? I mean, we already package stable > &

Re: sound distribution practices

2012-04-09 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 11:09:30AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 03:23:26PM +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 09:08:21PM -0400, Andrew Whitworth wrote: > > > What if we did something like bundling? > > > > Is

Re: sound distribution practices

2012-04-09 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
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

Re: sound distribution practices

2012-04-09 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 07:12:19PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: > Patrick and I just chatted on the phone, here's a summary of the working > scenario we reached: > > - Rakudo will deliver a Rakudo release for each supported ("stable") > Parrot release, a few days after the Parrot release. > > - D

Re: sound distribution practices

2012-04-09 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 12:15:44PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 06:53:49PM +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 11:09:30AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > > Unfortunately, aiui Parrot's current implementation requ

Re: sound distribution practices

2012-04-09 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 08:08:28PM +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > This way we avoid that Parrot-based compilers don't break in the period of > time I really meant "This way we avoid the Parrot-based compilers *break*..." -.-" Cheers -- perl -E'$_=q;$/= @{[

Re: sound distribution practices

2012-04-09 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 09:46:18AM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: > On 04/08/2012 09:29 AM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > > > > If we go down the "split to different libraries" path, those libraries > > should > > depend on parrotapi-* too so that not only Parro