Next steps for rakudo and rakudo-star

[Dominique Dumont]

On Sunday 07 February 2016 21:02:32 Daniel Dehennin wrote:
> Something like dh-make-perl6 will definitely ease the packaging for new
> comers.
> 
> Obviously, I'm ready to help.

I could use some help packaging all Perl6 modules from rakudo-star.

The difficutly will come from managing the build dependencies. Some of these 
modules will require ufo, others will require other tools (I've not yet dug 
into this).

ufo is a simple perl6 script that requires a small package depending on rakudo 
(or should it depend on a "perl6-core" meta package that would depend on 
rakudo.)

> One point remains, the management of MoarVM/NQP/Rakudo.
> 
> I think a rebuild of MoarVM does not needs to rebuild everything,

Agreed. 

> but as
> far as I understand, any rebuild of NQP requires a rebuild of rakudo.

Yes. I've discussed a little bit with upstream to solve this. They have some 
ideas on how to resolve this. But we need to discuss more ...

> Should we manage them separately with strict a dependency of Rakudo on
> NQP, or should we build NQP from Rakudo?

We already have the former solution (done by ghedo a while ago).

I'm currently updating moar to 2016-01 and testing "cme update dpkg-copyright" 
to update the copyright file. (moar is an excellent use case :-p )

All the best

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