Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2018.10

ations, reference materials, design documents, and other supporting resources. Tutorials are available under the "docs" directory in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see http://

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2018.06

pment team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the mailing list, or join us on IRC \#perl6 on freenode. -- Steve Mynott cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2018.06

pment team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the mailing list, or join us on IRC \#perl6 on freenode. -- Steve Mynott cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2018.06

pment team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the mailing list, or join us on IRC \#perl6 on freenode. -- Steve Mynott cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5

Re: start up delay?

ave a very fast machine and it takes > about seven see for some of my Perl 6 stuff to get past the > ruminating phase and start running. > > Any workaround for this, or is this just growing pains for Perl 6? > > Many thanks, > -T -- Steve Mynott cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5

Re: [perl #128154] [BUG] Cannot use qqx in rakudo star on windows7

I'm not sure. Probably your idea of warning about detected encoding is better. S On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 at 09:58, Kamil Kułaga via RT wrote: > > Will it work fine for utf-16 users? > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:16 AM Steve Mynott via RT > wrote: > > > > Maybe the Wind

Re: [perl #128154] [BUG] Cannot use qqx in rakudo star on windows7

I'm not sure. Probably your idea of warning about detected encoding is better. S On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 at 09:58, Kamil Kułaga via RT wrote: > > Will it work fine for utf-16 users? > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:16 AM Steve Mynott via RT > wrote: > > > > Maybe the Wind

Re: [perl #128154] [BUG] Cannot use qqx in rakudo star on windows7

kes work just fine. Default is 852. I'm very supprised because I use > unicode encoding all the the time and never had such issue. For me it would > be better to detect if codepage is set to 852 and warn user that perl6 may > not work well. Shall we close it or leave defect fo

Re: [perl #128154] [BUG] Cannot use qqx in rakudo star on windows7

kes work just fine. Default is 852. I'm very supprised because I use > unicode encoding all the the time and never had such issue. For me it would > be better to detect if codepage is set to 852 and warn user that perl6 may > not work well. Shall we close it or leave defect fo

Re: I need regex help

stead of the numbers in braces, > >>> it's the ** operator with a range after it: \d ** 1..4 > >>> (Remember that spaces do nothing in a P6 regex, so you can use them > >>> for readability or to separate the range from what follows, etc.) > >>>

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2018.04

esentations, reference materials, design documents, and other supporting resources. Some Perl 6 tutorials are available under the "docs" directory in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible.

Re: latest rakudo srtar not found

The old link redirect should work now thanks to Zoffix (subject to possible browser caching). Try now. S On 16 April 2018 at 17:04, Steve Mynott wrote: > The old link is still supposed to work! And the issue being debugged > even as I type :-) > > S > > On 16 April 2018

Re: latest rakudo srtar not found

t; (JIT).msi. Messages returned are >> >> Error downloading remote file: One or more errors occurred. >> Inner Exception: Remote server returned 404: Not Found >> >> Is the file stored at another location perhaps? >> >> Regards >> Marcel -- Steve Mynott cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5

Re: issues with zef

le someone on this mailing list uses them and is able to help but it's more likely Fedora lists can help. You could try differents RPMs from https://github.com/nxadm/rakudo-pkg#rakudo-pkg which are more closely associated with the Rakudo Project. You are more likely

Re: [perl #128520] [META][RT][RFC] Consider migrating from RT

issues is opened, then for me all issues raised in this >> ticket will be resolved. > > It was opened awhile ago. > > …and based on the recent usage, seems GitHub's ticket tracker is preferred by > users, so as far as this ticket goes, I think it can be c

Re: [perl #128520] [META][RT][RFC] Consider migrating from RT

issues is opened, then for me all issues raised in this >> ticket will be resolved. > > It was opened awhile ago. > > …and based on the recent usage, seems GitHub's ticket tracker is preferred by > users, so as far as this ticket goes, I think it can be c

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2018.01

r the "docs" directory in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the perl6-compi...@perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. -- Steve Mynott cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5

Re: p6 for w32

http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo/ >>> >>> The 32 bit version is two years old. >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> -T > > > On 11/30/2017 01:50 AM, Steve Mynott wrote: >> I'm not aware of anyone having built a 32 bit Windows in some time

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.10

other supporting resources. Some Perl 6 tutorials are available under the "docs" directory in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the perl6-compi...@perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

[perl #131814] quote bug in shell command on windows

There does seem to be a quoting bug in Windows shell but none of the above examples show it. See #132183: Insufficient debug messages from zef/perl6.bat when package build fails I propose this ticket be closed.

[perl #131814] quote bug in shell command on windows

I don't think this is a bug in the shell command on windows since cmd.exe behaves differently to Bourne type shells. UNIX $ echo "foo" foo Windows C:\Windows\system32>echo "foo" "foo"

Re: [perl #132183] Insufficient debug messages from zef/perl6.bat when package build fails

t => IO::Pipe, err => IO::Pipe, exitcode => 255, > signal => 0, command => ["perl -e \"use v5.18;\""]) >> > > Problem isn't lack of Perl 5: > > PS C:\rakudo> perl -v > > This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 0 (v5.26.0) built for >

Re: [perl #132183] Insufficient debug messages from zef/perl6.bat when package build fails

t => IO::Pipe, err => IO::Pipe, exitcode => 255, > signal => 0, command => ["perl -e \"use v5.18;\""]) >> > > Problem isn't lack of Perl 5: > > PS C:\rakudo> perl -v > > This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 0 (v5.26.0) built for >

Re: [perl #132183] Insufficient debug messages from zef/perl6.bat when package build fails

in sub at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\sources\3393EDA469A9E8925A633FF7A533AB41141495DA > (Zef::Client) line 520 >in method install at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\sources\3393EDA469A9E8925A633FF7A533AB41141495DA > (Zef::Client) line 631 >in sub MAIN at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\sources\ED3033E8712BCF9F6DE53678B14A54705DF211A6 > (Zef::CLI) line 152 >in block at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\resources\DC5F87DA28311BE6F3A731229527E5C4A2F12716 > line 1 >in sub MAIN at C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\bin\zef line 2 >in block at C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\bin\zef line 2 > > Is this a bug in zef or in perl6.bat? > > Am I expected to read through the source code on the lines mentioned in > the stack trace? > > It would be much more useful to see some diagnostics about which > compiler the Build package is trying to use (if any!), whether it has > failed to find it and what it is actually trying to accomplish. > > Regards, > Ville Koskinen -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #132183] Insufficient debug messages from zef/perl6.bat when package build fails

in sub at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\sources\3393EDA469A9E8925A633FF7A533AB41141495DA > (Zef::Client) line 520 >in method install at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\sources\3393EDA469A9E8925A633FF7A533AB41141495DA > (Zef::Client) line 631 >in sub MAIN at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\sources\ED3033E8712BCF9F6DE53678B14A54705DF211A6 > (Zef::CLI) line 152 >in block at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\resources\DC5F87DA28311BE6F3A731229527E5C4A2F12716 > line 1 >in sub MAIN at C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\bin\zef line 2 >in block at C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\bin\zef line 2 > > Is this a bug in zef or in perl6.bat? > > Am I expected to read through the source code on the lines mentioned in > the stack trace? > > It would be much more useful to see some diagnostics about which > compiler the Build package is trying to use (if any!), whether it has > failed to find it and what it is actually trying to accomplish. > > Regards, > Ville Koskinen -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #130500] [LTA] Download Page on Rakudo.org

install all > of Rakudo Star's modules. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #130500] [LTA] Download Page on Rakudo.org

install all > of Rakudo Star's modules. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: zef install --/test cro

ry 'libssl.so' > > in any at /home/ngaywood/rakudo-star-2017.07/install/share/perl6/[snip] > > > > -- > Norman Gaywood, Computer Systems Officer > School of Science and Technology > University of New England > Armidale NSW 2351, Australia > > ngayw...@une.edu.au http://turing.une.edu.au/~ngaywood > Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 Mobile: +61 (0)4 7862 0062 > > Please avoid sending me Word or Power Point attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #131814] quote bug in shell command on windows

ot;foo" > > This bug effectively prevents from shelling out to a program while using > quoted strings as arguments. > > tx for listening -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #131814] quote bug in shell command on windows

ot;foo" > > This bug effectively prevents from shelling out to a program while using > quoted strings as arguments. > > tx for listening -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #131815] `zef search` fails after installing `rakudo-star-2017.07-x86_64 (JIT).msi` on Windows 10 Home x64

41141495DA > (Zef::Client) line 398 >in sub MAIN at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\sources\ED3033E8712BCF9F6DE53678B14A54705DF211A6 > (Zef::CLI) line 189 >in block at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\resources\DC5F87DA28311BE6F3A731229527E5C4A2F12716 > line 1 >in sub MAIN at c:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\bin\zef line 2 >in block at c:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\bin\zef line 2 > > > -- > C-x C-c -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #131815] `zef search` fails after installing `rakudo-star-2017.07-x86_64 (JIT).msi` on Windows 10 Home x64

41141495DA > (Zef::Client) line 398 >in sub MAIN at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\sources\ED3033E8712BCF9F6DE53678B14A54705DF211A6 > (Zef::CLI) line 189 >in block at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\resources\DC5F87DA28311BE6F3A731229527E5C4A2F12716 > line 1 >in sub MAIN at c:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\bin\zef line 2 >in block at c:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\bin\zef line 2 > > > -- > C-x C-c -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Verifiable Releases/The Build System is Ridiculous

efects. The more important question is whether defects are >>> important. >>> >> >> That is a decent enough explanation. If anyone can chime in with >> specifics I am still interested, as I don't see how learning the dance >> for submodules is any different than learning the dance for Git in >> general. That explanation makes sense if submodules were investigated >> before being used in depth, but >> > > Whoops. > > That explanation makes sense if submodules were investigated before > being used in depth, but someone already commented and said that they > were being used but were abandoned. > > R0b0t1. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Verifiable Releases/The Build System is Ridiculous

On 28 July 2017 at 11:00, Timo Paulssen wrote: > On 28/07/17 10:57, Steve Mynott wrote: >> Yes we ship binary blobs to bootstrap. I spent a day trying to >> reproduce the current binary blobs and it's not possible. Well maybe >> it is possible if you reproduce th

Re: Verifiable Releases/The Build System is Ridiculous

On 28 July 2017 at 11:00, Timo Paulssen wrote: > On 28/07/17 10:57, Steve Mynott wrote: >> Yes we ship binary blobs to bootstrap. I spent a day trying to >> reproduce the current binary blobs and it's not possible. Well maybe >> it is possible if you reproduce th

Re: Verifiable Releases/The Build System is Ridiculous

>> On 27 July 2017 at 09:13, R0b0t1 wrote: > Of course there is still the problem of communicating the release keys > to someone in the first place, but if the release key is on a public > keyserver and its ID is referenced on the project site somewhere that > typically works well enough. The ma

Re: Verifiable Releases/The Build System is Ridiculous

gly enough about this to actually do the work you can fork the repo and make changes in your own branch. We would actively encourage contributions and it's easier to evaluate actual code changes than emailed suggestions. But be aware talk is cheap and code costs time. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Is win 32 being worked on?

to install one tool rather than two. 32 bit Windows should compile Rakudo if you install Strawberry Perl and have both gcc and gmake in the path. Note you need to use cmd.exe as a shell (not bash) and gmake rather than Window's usual nmake. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Fwd: Re: Is win 32 being worked on?

not 32 bit W7.) > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates > allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonadhttp://sinenomine.net -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.07

On 25 July 2017 at 16:33, Stephen Wilcoxon wrote: > I don't see anything in the notes (though I may have missed it) about JVM. > I thought the plan was to get JVM functional again (though likely still > lagging MoarVM feature support) with the 2017.07 release? There are comments in the README "P

Re: Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.07

On 25 July 2017 at 16:23, Darren Duncan wrote: > There's a key difference however. > > While programming languages continue to evolve, the expectation is that a > production-complete Rakudo would always be a functional superset (or equal > to) the Perl 6 language specification which is current at

Re: Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.07

I've just uploaded the Win64 version and I'm still building the Mac one (which won't take long) S On 24 July 2017 at 20:29, wrote: > > Quoting Darren Duncan : > >> On 2017-07-24 11:40 AM, Steve Mynott wrote: >>> >>> A useful and usable product

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.07

the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the perl6-compi...@perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Is win 32 being worked on?

udo Star". You can download it from >>> >>> https://rakudo.perl6.org/downloads/star/ >> >> But no recent win 32-bit. > > > https://rakudo.perl6.org/downloads/star/rakudo-star-2016.01-x86%20(no%20JIT).msi > > seems to be the last one -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Compiling Rakudo in parallel

On 26 May 2017 at 07:04, Gabor Szabo wrote: > Would someone update the README that comes with Rakudo Star with this > information, please? I don't see any point since I think he is basically saying it's not worth trying to compile in parallel -- the bits which compile slowly can't be compiled in

Re: Task::Star and Panda

On 25 May 2017 at 09:59, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > I have just suggested a Task::Popular module on the IRC channel, and > feedback so far is positive. > > I will work on it at the weekend. Hopefully have a module ready soon. > > Basically, I will use my work on the most recursively cited module

Re: Task::Star and Panda

On 25 May 2017 at 08:00, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > I have not seen a discussion on this Forum about removing Task::Star. It > seems to me to be a bad idea. The discussion is at https://github.com/tadzik/Task-Star/issues/13 > There is the distribution for Rakudo Star and it is useful to have a

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.04

o Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the perl6-compi...@perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: $*DISTRO

~ > Computers are like air conditioners. > They malfunction when you open windows > ~~ -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #130847] perl6 zef not working on windows 7

EB9AFDF1EEEB07B52A1B75537C31 > (Zef::CLI) line 307 > in block at > C:\rakudo\share\perl6\site\resources\1BB781E6A0355D520C9B0E40400A3186CFE69967 > l > > > -- > Radek -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: print to STDERR problem

out of date. Do *not* use as reference! > > To see what is currently happening visit http://www.perl6.org/ > > > And then a bit lower you can see: > > Date: 4 Aug 2000 > Last Modified: 14 Sep 2000 > > > thanks > - Timo > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: per 5 converter?

> Just my two cents. > > Best regards, > > -Tom -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.01

other supporting resources. Some Perl 6 tutorials are available under the "docs" directory in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: JIT?

The most important difference is that the JIT version is 64 bit and the "no JIT" is 32 bit. So if you are running a modern Windows you almost certainly want the 64 bit (JIT) version Also the JIT version is a more recent version. S

Re: debugger dies on me

s > persist in the deep. I will try to clean up and reinstall. (I thought I did > that but evidently not thoroughly enough). > > thanks, > > > Steve Mynott schreef op 2016-12-05 12:28: > >> I can see references to /home/theo/.rakudobrew which shouldn't exist >>

Re: debugger dies on me

l6-debug.moarvm:) > from :1 (/home/theo/.rakudobrew/moar-n > om/install/share/perl6/runtime/perl6-debug.moarvm:) > from :1 (/home/theo/.rakudobrew/moar-n > om/install/share/perl6/runtime/perl6-debug.moarvm:) > > thanks, > > -- > Theo van den Heuvel > Van den Heuvel HLT Consultancy > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.11

On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm pleased to announce the November 2016 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable production distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the November 2016 release is available from . This is the fifth post-C

Re: What is rakudo-star?

They malfunction when you open windows > ~~~~~~ > > > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: What is rakudo-star?

hy there is not a star release of 2016.10 for windows ? > > Because nobody one yet. I'm happy to upload it for you if you provide it. > > Cheers, > Moritz > > -- > Moritz Lenz > https://deploybook.com/ -- https://perlgeek.de/ -- https://perl6.org/ > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Where to start?

; #!/usr/bin/env /path/to/your/rakudo/inst/bin/perl6 > > use v6; > > > > Also, do I need to run perl6 through a compiler or > > does it compile on the fly like perl 5? > > There's no separate compilation step. > > Cheers, > Moritz > > -- > Moritz Lenz > https://deploybook.com/ -- https://perlgeek.de/ -- https://perl6.org/ > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.10

On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm pleased to announce the October 2016 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable production distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the October 2016 release is available from http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/. This is the fourth post-Chri

Re: What's involved in the creation of a new Rakudo * version?

, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > We "Star" users are falling rather behind the compiler versions. > I'd like to help catch up, if the processes involved are sufficiently > mundane. > Is there a checklist of the required tasks from which to work? > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: lwp. Where are the directions?

hoping > to find the directions on the web,) > > Many thanks, > -T > > -- > ~~ > Computers are like air conditioners. > They malfunction when you open windows > ~~~~~~ > > > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Killer Features of Perl 6

enefits > of Perl 6 to a bunch of Perl 5 experts. > I am interested in your opinion on which of the many features of Perl 6 > are the main reasons why anyone would migrate to Perl 6 from Perl 5. > Any opinions greatly appreciated. > > Tony > > > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #125501] rakudo moar does not compile on Windows using latest git

I used the gcc from Strawberry Perl (SP) successfully to build Rakudo Star 2016.07 a week or two ago. I think the first error (equinox) is due to using nmake (Microsoft) rather the gmake which ships with SP -- you may need to remove nmake from the PATH. The second error (Will's) is due to using t

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.07

contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the perl6-compi...@perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #127750] Intermittent failure on t/04-nativecall/13-union.t

7 . >> > >> > I suggest closing this ticket, and thus removing the blocker for >> > 2016.03. >> > >> > >> > Liz >> >> It's still failing here for me. >> > Has anybody seen this recently? I suspect it was fixed by 6733e927ceb1aeff0 > in MoarVM, which addressed a GC bug in CUnion that torture testing drove out. > That was fixed back in April, and I don't recall seeing the test fail since > then. > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Release #101 (2016.07)

tion to cut a release this month, so you will > likely see one in the next couple of weeks. > > Cheers, > ZZ > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Fwd: perl6 INC

The video I was talking about is now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu8auCKCUN4 On 11 May 2016 at 15:38, Steve Mynott wrote: > It's not a hack and the use of SHA files is basic to the requirements > of how Perl 6 precomp works (totally different to how Perl 5 modules > are use

Re: Fwd: perl6 INC

I would also suggest stealing ideas from other packagers Debian have Rakudo 2016.04 in sid https://packages.debian.org/sid/rakudo They have also split out nqp and moarvm packages. S On 11 May 2016 at 16:14, Steve Mynott wrote: > Using an install outside the RPM/spec framework but also us

Re: Fwd: perl6 INC

t;> Happily, it's not too hard to package a single compiler, e.g. rakudo-moar. >> And as long as you're comfy with rpmbuild, you can knock out a few modules, >> then script the process. I no longer have the actual code, but my cpan2rpm >> script was really short and simple. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Fwd: perl6 INC

;s using a separate database, opaque to filesystem tools. I > hope this is just a temporary hack until a mature solution is hammered out. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Fwd: perl6 INC

rakudo, and call the rpm rakudo, unless > they can fix the problems so panda gets built and installed. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: perl6 INC

.04 but it comes without panda. >>>>> So I try to install panda and its requirements (Shell::Command, ...) >>>>> >>>>> I think the best place for those libraries are in /usr/share/perl6/lib >>>>> or >>>>> /usr/share/perl6/site|vendor/lib >>>>> >>>>> Unfortunately once installed, perl6 cannot find them because it looks >>>>> into >>>>> /usr/share/perl6/ or /usr/share/perl6/site|vendor/, not in >>>>> sub-directory >>>>> lib >>>>> in those folders. >>>>> >>>>> So what is the best/common place to install Perl6 modules? >>>>> Alternatively how to change the Perl6 behavior to look into lib >>>>> sub-directories. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers > > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: perl6 INC

perl6/site|vendor/lib >>> >>> Unfortunately once installed, perl6 cannot find them because it looks >>> into >>> /usr/share/perl6/ or /usr/share/perl6/site|vendor/, not in sub-directory >>> lib >>> in those folders. >>> >>> So what is the best/common place to install Perl6 modules? >>> Alternatively how to change the Perl6 behavior to look into lib >>> sub-directories. >>> >>> Cheers -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: perl6 INC

erl6/ or /usr/share/perl6/site|vendor/, not in sub-directory lib > in those folders. > > So what is the best/common place to install Perl6 modules? > Alternatively how to change the Perl6 behavior to look into lib > sub-directories. > > Cheers -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Difficulty Installing Module on Latest Rakudo Star

th the Latest > Rakudo Star (2016.04). The installation fails on a dependency. > > Digest::HMAC can't be installed using > > sudo panda --prefix=/Applications/Rakudo/share/perl6/site/bin/ --force > install Digest::HMAC > > The error message says > > Could not find Digest at line 6 in: > > /Applications/Rakudo/share/perl6/site > > /Applications/Rakudo/share/perl6/vendor > > /Applications/Rakudo/share/perl6 > > > However, Digest itself is installed. It's visible in the file system browser > and my .per.6/panda/state file lists it as having been successfully > installed. > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Joe > > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.04

aterials, design documents, and other supporting resources. Some Perl 6 tutorials are available under the "docs" directory in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the mailing list, or join us on IRC \#perl6 on freenode. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: books on p6?

ll, >> anybody knows of ongoing efforts for Perl 6 related books? >> I suspect O'reilly title >> <http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596007379.do> is pretty much out >> of date, or am I wrong? >> >> Thanks, >> Luca > > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Very small feature suggestion

t. >> >> How much work would it be to print "To return to the command line, >> type exit or ^D" when first invoked? > > > I think this is a great idea. There is also precedent for a REPL to print a > similar statement like "for help type this". -- Darren Duncan > > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #127173] [BUG] Cannot build on Alpine Linux

stall) before the build would finish. Compiler used was gcc 5.3. S On 5 January 2016 at 23:20, Tobias Leich via RT wrote: > libuv does not like to build here, which is a dependency of MoarVM. > Though, that does not mean that we cannot do something about that. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #127485] "panda look SomeModule" makes perl6 hang (!!)

16.01 > implementing Perl 6.c. > > ....and the latest Panda (no version supplied). -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: It's time to use "use v6.c"

The windows p6doc fix at http://perl6.org/downloads/ has been updated. On 6 February 2016 at 21:17, Steve Mynott wrote: > Are you using windows? > > From the recently updated http://perl6.org/downloads/ > > "p6doc was broken on Windows. Fix is to, with Git in the %PAT

Re: It's time to use "use v6.c"

>; > use Perl:<6.0.0>; > use Perl:<6.2.7.1>; > > if you want to lock in a particular set of semantics at some greater > degree of specificity." > > -y -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Installing both from rakudobrew and Rakudo Star

ome > directory? > > Thanks to all who worked on getting Rakudo Star yesterday and who > contributed to the earlier thread. > > Jim Keenan -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #127308] Configure.pl with moar fails to find C compiler on older Darwin

/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1/darwin-2level > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.22.1/darwin-2level > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.22.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.2 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl > . > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: is there a Perl 5 converter?

rised if they work particularly well yet in producing code which runs straight off. -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #127308] Configure.pl with moar fails to find C compiler on older Darwin

/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1/darwin-2level > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.22.1/darwin-2level > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.22.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.2 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl > . > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Perl 6 Advocacy Suggestion

oundation. > > Audrey Tang's article (based on information on the citation page only) > doesn't seem to fit the specific comparison I think is needed, but the > article may be useful background for any new author. > > Of course there may already be such an article in academia, but > apparently not in the computer science education realm. > > Best regards, > > -Tom -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: release?

;> >>>> I'm a bit confused, there is a major release for Perl 6, but I know >>>> wonder if this is the 6.0.0 release or when this will be? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> web >>>> >>> >>> >> > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Perl6 build failure on Ubuntu 14.04, 32-bit

--backends=moar --gen-moar > --git-reference=/home/ctech/.rakudobrew/bin/../git_reference > --make-install at /home/ctech/.rakudobrew/bin/rakudobrew line 57. > main::run('/usr/bin/perl Configure.pl --backends=moar --gen-moar > --git-r...') called at /home/ctech/.rakudobrew/bin/rakudobrew line 377 > main::build_impl('moar', undef, '') called at > /home/ctech/.rakudobrew/bin/rakudobrew line 113 > > Thanks for any help! > > Best regards, > > -Tom -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

[perl #126927] [BUG] Spurious warning when trying to smartmatch num64 against Num in Rakudo

Bisected to f457007181bb6e2dcb6aefe857f36d648ae38401

Re: Missing documentation

5to6 > is mentioned in several places, but returns a 404. Is it obsolete, or > just misplaced? -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: .perl method: any plans for allowing output format changes?

rown filter of some kind. Providing some way to > duplicate the output of Data::Dumper would be handy for someone > converting Perl 5 to Perl 6. > > Maybe we need a Perl 6 version of Data::Dumper. > > Best, > > -Tom -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: Re-installation of Perl 6 (Rakudo Star) via rakudobrew on Linux

r LWP::Simple: Tests failed > > > > Questions: > > 1. Is there a better or proper way to upgrade to a new Rakudo Star release? > > 2. Is the failure of LWP::Simple a bug or just some weird > misconfiguration on my system? > > Thanks. > > Cheers! > > -Tom -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #123758] panda doesn't cope well when projects.json isn't a JSON document

s.json as > JSON: Unable to parse expression in array; couldn't find final ']' > > (this is an example where I added garbage in front of the closing ']') > > Cheers, > Moritz > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #123758] panda doesn't cope well when projects.json isn't a JSON document

s.json as > JSON: Unable to parse expression in array; couldn't find final ']' > > (this is an example where I added garbage in front of the closing ']') > > Cheers, > Moritz > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Using C structs containing pointers from NativeCall?

. } sub gdbm_store(OpaquePointer $dbf, Datum $key, Datum $content, int $flag) returns Int is native(LIB) { ... } my $dbf = gdbm_open('foo.dat', 512, 2, 0o755, ""); my $key = Datum.new(:p(MyPointer(:s("foo")),:s(3)); my $val = $key; my $ret = gdbm_store($dbf, $key, $val, 0); -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Date truncated-to method argument?

24 > say $c.truncated-to("year") 2012-01-01 Which is correct the code or docs? -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

Re: [perl #122741] Dead link

ewbie-friendly > (because we do want to cater to newcomers, it's just that sometimes we fail > to.) > > Please tell me if there's more I can do to improve it! -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott

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