NQP 2015.07.2

[Paul Cochrane]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 08:47:58PM +0200, Daniel Dehennin wrote:

> I have integrated the NQP 2015.07.2 tar.gz.
> 
> I pushed the upstream/2015.07.2 tag with pristin-tar, upstream and
> master branches.

Awesome!  Thanks :-)

> About the libtommath issue[2], waiting the fix[3] could be long, instead
> of disabling the failing tests[4] in NQP, I see two options:
> 
> - use the MoarVM in-tree libtommath
> 
> - patch the debian libtommath package

I think it would be cleaner (and faster) to patch the Debian libtommath
package, however that's just my 2 cents...

Cheers,

Paul

> Footnotes: 
> [1]  rework the -common package
>      https://alioth.debian.org/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pkg-rakudo/nqp.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature/moarvm-and-jvm-backends
> 
> [2]  https://github.com/perl6/nqp/issues/234
> 
> [3]  https://github.com/libtom/libtommath/issues/35
> 
> [4]  https://alioth.debian.org/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pkg-rakudo/nqp.git;a=commit;h=8ea857c1d7d699eceb8b7a6661a7ee5c3fb28a89