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

[Allison Randal]

On 09/27/2011 04:46 PM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 03:33:31PM +0100, Allison Randal wrote:
>> [...] which files you actually need [...]
> 
>     library/HLL.pbc
>     library/P6Regex.pbc
>     library/P6object.pbc
>     library/PCT*
>     library/Regex.pbc

Hmmm... so those mostly look like NQP dependencies. Which means, you may
not need them from the Parrot package at all once NQP moves to a
separate source package.

> 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).

It's true Rakudo isn't the only language on Parrot, but it has some
unique dependencies that just happen to currently be distributed in the
Parrot tarball, and probably shouldn't be. (Anything with "P6" in the
name is a red flag.)

Do you mind waiting on shifting around the parrot packages until the
dust settles from the NQP ITP?

Allison