On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 20:58:49 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > 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 Oh, right, that would make versioning of the binary packages more difficult (it works somehow but I don't remember exactly how) and confusing. > 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 > . Then a new compiler source package could build the perl6 binary package ... Theoretically. But yes, that makes everything just more messy, so I agree if you just forget my quick idea :) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - https://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Rolling Stones: Beast Of Burden
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