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Re: input into perl 6 packaging required



Hi Robert,

Excerpts from Robert Lemmen's message of maj 6, 2018 9:39 am:
we are currently thinking about how to package perl 6 modules. One of the problems is that perl 6 pre-compiled modules and leaves these precomp files in hard-to-predict places. we could create these files during install-time on the target system, or at build time. If we do the latter, all modules would depend on a fairly tight version of the runtime, so we would need transitions to upgrade them all together. Details at https://wiki.debian.org/Perl6PreCompProposal

I would love to get some input from you on how difficult "big" transitions are, and whether you think these could be made more often (e.g. up to once a month)? And if you have any tips on how to make these transitions less painful? Of course any other input would be fab as well!

You might want to ask the Rust team as well: They face a similar challenge and have chosen an approach inspired by but different from the Haskell team, as I understand it.

Would be awesome if you could summarize - e.g. somewhere on Debia wiki - the different approaches to this kind of challenge.

- Jonas
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