Re: Can't download Rakudo Dec 2010 without git

2011-01-04 Thread Will Coleda
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote: > On 01/04/2011 03:19 AM, gvim wrote: >> Does this mean I have no option but to install git in order to keep my Perl >> 6 up to date? > > No. You can download and install a release tarball of parrot, and then > point rakudo's Configure.pl to the

Re: Can't download Rakudo Dec 2010 without git

2011-01-04 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote: > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 09:30, Daniel Carrera wrote: >> >> That's rather annoying. Isn't there a way to fix that? > > Yes, install Rakudo Star instead, that bundles a suitable version of Parrot. Oh, gvim wasn't talking about Rakudo Star?

Re: Can't download Rakudo Dec 2010 without git

2011-01-04 Thread Jan Ingvoldstad
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 09:30, Daniel Carrera wrote: > That's rather annoying. Isn't there a way to fix that? > Yes, install Rakudo Star instead, that bundles a suitable version of Parrot. -- Jan

Re: Can't download Rakudo Dec 2010 without git

2011-01-04 Thread Daniel Carrera
That's rather annoying. Isn't there a way to fix that? On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote: > On 01/04/2011 03:19 AM, gvim wrote: >> Does this mean I have no option but to install git in order to keep my Perl >> 6 up to date? > > No. You can download and install a release tarball o

Re: Can't download Rakudo Dec 2010 without git

2011-01-03 Thread Moritz Lenz
On 01/04/2011 03:19 AM, gvim wrote: > Does this mean I have no option but to install git in order to keep my Perl 6 > up to date? No. You can download and install a release tarball of parrot, and then point rakudo's Configure.pl to the installed parrot. Only if you use the --gen-parrot option, gi

Can't download Rakudo Dec 2010 without git

2011-01-03 Thread gvim
OS X 10.6.4/Perl 5.12.2 (Macports) I've been able to install Rakudo so far without git, which I'm not fond of, but this time I received this error after downloading a tarball: Checking out Parrot RELEASE_2_11_0-478-gd69dbbc via git... Can't exec "git": No such file or directory at build/gen_pa