Re: Intalling Perl6

[email protected] (Brandon Allbery) Sun, 26 Jun 2016 14:00:30 -0400

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On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Julian Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> I search for packages on Debian Jessie for Perl 6 and found Rakudo and
> Parrot.
>
> Does everyone install per user and not system-wide?
> Does anyone use Parrot instead of Moar?
>

Debian is, as always, way behind. The Parrot backend hasn't even been
supported for over a year. (There should be be newer packages in unstable,
and possibly already in testing.)

System-wide installation was broken when the new CompUnitRepo stuff was
added, and was only recently fixed --- but still needs more testing, so if
you choose to do a system-wide install of a sufficiently recent rakudo (I
think this means 2016.05 or later) you should expect to be a guinea pig.

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