Bug#839009: ITP: perl6 -- Perl6 Compiler (pure meta package)

[Dominique Dumont]

On Tuesday, 27 September 2016 19:49:15 CEST gregor herrmann wrote:
> Just thinking out aloud: Do you need a new source package, or could
> this be a new binary package produced by the rakudo source package?

Well, Perl6 and Rakudo have 2 different life cycles:
* perl6 and rakudo have different version numbers
* rakudo is updated quite often whereas there's no plan for a perl 6d (*)

We may also want to switch to another compiler (in a distant future), so 
having a separate source package will make this hypothetical transition easier 
.
All the best

(*)  that I know of, but I did not look very hard. Well, you get the idea

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