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Bug#544399: ITP: rakudo -- implementation of Perl 6 for Parrot



Hi Allison,

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 09:16:52PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote:
> 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).
>

as I'm sure you already know, parrot 1.6 is now released, so how about
an upload to experimental? :)

Cheers,
Ryan

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