Next steps for rakudo and rakudo-star

[Dominique Dumont]

Hello

You've certainly noticed that I've canceled the upload of rakudo-star.

After thinking quite a lot on this subject, I think this bundle package has 
too many drawbacks. It's quite complex to manage and we may face the issue of 
dual-live module like in Perl5: modules that exists in rakudo star and have a 
more recent version as stand-alone Perl6 module.

So what's next ? 

I plan to package rakudo-star modules one by one following the order listed 
[1] in MODULES.txt. I may need to pester upstream to create release tags for 
these modules (e.g. ufo has no release tag)

Note that all Perl6 modules should be named perl6-* like what's done with 
other languages like ruby or nodejs. This will let the bunch of available 
packages more visible in aptitude.

And I'll create a perl6 meta-package that will depends on rakudo and all 
modules listed in rakudo-star.

I hope that packages rakudo-star modules individually will let more people 
help with this task.... (I'll certainly sponsor all these packages).


Thoughts ?

[1] https://github.com/rakudo/star/blob/master/modules/MODULES.txt
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