[Pkg-parrot-devel] Parrot 3.8.0 for Debian?

[Alessandro Ghedini]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 03:33:31PM +0100, Allison Randal wrote:
> On 09/27/2011 02:01 PM, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 September 2011 14:45:33 Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> >> is anyone working on packaging parrot 3.8.0 for Debian? Also, are there
> >> any  comments on bug #641213 (Consider adding a parrot-runtime package)?
> 
> We need to think more about names, because we're not talking about "the
> Parrot runtime", but a few side development packages that just happen to
> be used by Rakudo. And, I'm happy to set it up, if you can tell me which
> files you actually need, instead of moving all the parrot-devel
> libraries into it. 

That's been already answered [0]:

    library/HLL.pbc
    library/P6Regex.pbc
    library/P6object.pbc
    library/PCT*
    library/Regex.pbc

The "move all the files" thing was just to try to not make it not rakudo 
specific. I mean, rakudo isn't the only language that is built upon parrot, 
and some of them may end up being packaged for Debian too. They may also 
have different requirements, and solving this issue for the more general 
case seemed more appropriate to me (and I ended up being blindly and 
uselessly too general).

Regarding the package name, I agree that it may not be the best choice of
words, but I couldn't come up with anything better (I also thought of
"parrot-library" but that seems to be a little confusing given the presence
of libparrot).

Anyway, take that patch just as, I don't know, an example / prototype / 
whatever.

> > Shouldn't we be waiting parrot 3.9.0 which should be flagged as "stable" 
> > release ? (Note the quotes around "stable")
> 
> Yes, we only package supported releases, not development releases, so
> won't be packaging 3.8.

Ok then.

Cheers

[0] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-parrot-devel/2011-July/000184.html

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