pkg-parrot: migrate or drop ?

[Paul Cochrane]

Hi Dominique,

> What should we do with pkg-parrot on alioth ?
> 
> This was packaged for Debian a while ago before moarvm was used with rakudo. 
> It has been removed from Debian since 2016.
> 
> Is there any change that parrot comes back ? or should we forget about it and 
> remove the repo without migration ?

AFAIK, Parrot won't be a VM for a Perl6 implementation any time soon (if at
all).  It is mentioned in the official Perl6 docs as being no longer
actively maintained[1] and is not mentioned at all on the compilers page[2].
I'd say it's fairly safe to say that one could forget about migrating
pkg-parrot.  And like you say, one can always retrieve the old packages from
snapshot.

HTH,

Paul

[1] https://docs.perl6.org/language/glossary#index-entry-Parrot
[2] https://perl6.org/compilers/