rakudo packages and testing release

[Patrick R. Michaud]

FWIW, 2015.12 is considered a significant release (corresponding with the Perl 6.c "Christmas" language release), so if there's any way to use 2015.12 in preference to 2015.11 that might be worthwhile.

https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/christmas-is-here/

Pm

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 09:12:06PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've attempted to build nqp 2015.12 with moarvm 2015.12, but one nqp test is 
> failing:
> $ prove -lv -e './nqp-m' t/nqp/60-bigint.t 
> t/nqp/60-bigint.t .. 
> 1..80
> ok 1 - can round-trip negative number (string)
> [snip]
> ok 34 - mod_I - both positive
> ok 35 - mod_I - negative and positive
> ok 36 - mod_I - negative and positive
> ok 37 - mod_I - both negative
> ok 38 - mod_I - positive and negative
> not ok 39 - mod_I - positive and negative
> ok 40 - Bit ops (RT 109740)
> ok 41 - can box to a complex type with a P6bigint target
> 
> This looks like yet another libtommath issue (Debian's version is lagging 
> behind the version used by nqp).
> 
> Since this issue will take some time to resolve, I'll focus on improving 
> 2015.11 packages so rakudo (and rakudo-star) 2015.11 can enter testing.
> 
> All the best
> 
> -- 
>  https://github.com/dod38fr/   -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/
> http://ddumont.wordpress.com/  -o-   irc: dod at irc.debian.org
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Pkg-rakudo-devel mailing list
> Pkg-rakudo-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-rakudo-devel