Bug#801498: Using rakudo-star tarball ...

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:23:28 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:

> On Thursday 22 October 2015 22:49:48 gregor herrmann wrote:
> > Is there no tarball for rakudo-star (as in pure rakudo plus the other
> > stuff)?
> Heh, I guess we're thinking the same way ;-)

Heh, I wonder why :)
 
> Yes, there are tarballs there 
> http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/
> 
> rakudo-star-2015.09.tar.gz   contains everything, moar, nqp, rakudo, panda and 
> core modules.

Interesting!
 
> Creating perl6 from there would be much simpler.
> I wonder if keeping separate binary package for moar nqp make sense ?

Maybe yes, since rakudo-star might switch backends again, and the
projects seem to be somewhat independent.
 
> We'd still need to:
> - remove libtomath
> - remove minified js files
> - ship arch dependant stuff in separate binary packages
> 
> We'd then drop rakudo, nqp, moar source package and keep only rakudo-star.

That would make packaging easier. Alternatives would be:
- keep moarvm and nqp source + binary packages as they are, only
  switch rakudo source+binary to rakudo-star (i.e. rakudo plus panda,
  core modules, ignore moarvm and nqp in the tarball); that's
  probably closest to the original question of how to get the
  additional stuff easily;
- or leave moarvm and nqp and rakudo as they are now, and only take
  the additional things from the rakudo-star tarball; which means
  "throwing away" more and having more source packages but OTOH
  keeping the main components separate.  

And that's only thinking-out-aloud; one thing that's not clear to me
is how "core" the modules are; and/or what perl6 actually "is" (is it
rakudo-star? or rakudo plus any VM? or rakudo plus modules and
moarvm?)


Cheers,
gregor

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