Ryan Niebur wrote:
ya. preparing an experimental upload would be great. Do you want to wait for the September release or package the SVN version?
Let's wait for the releases. Parrot and Rakudo are carefully sync'd at release points, but there's no guarantee of compatibility at random SVN/git revisions.
adding experimental to the sources.list and running "apt-get install -t experimental rakudo" is easier than downloading .debs from alioth, and it means that it's more official (because it's actually in Debian repos). other than that, I don't see the difference.
I talked some with Patrick about plans for Rakudo releases. It sounds like it'll be useful to have the 1.6 (maybe 1.8) and 2.3 releases of Parrot in experimental. Rakudo packages could be in experimental around Parrot 1.6, (maybe 1.8,) 2.0 (January), and 2.3 (April), then aim for Rakudo in Debian unstable around Parrot 2.6 (July).
Allison