You know what this project needs? A VM.

In order to install, deploy, test, demonstrate etc. RPerl, there's a lot of messing about and reconfiguration needed. It seems impossible on OS X for a start, and there's a danger of breaking your regular production perl(s).

Someone (maybe not WillTheChill because he never ever listens to criticism or answers questions) should create a basic Linux VM with Rperl set up on it1.

That way whenever someone questions what it's all about, the instructions would be:

I would kick in some money for that.

1. The other reason Will should not do it is because he can't do anything the easy way. If you asked him to create a simple Linux VM he would use the most obscure unmaintained distro of Linux ever invented, require several complicated tweaks after mounting, and create a VM for some Albanian VMWare solution nobody's ever heard of.

2. This would not be some incredibly obscure n-body astronomy problem which takes nine hours when done the slow way. It would be something practical which takes at most a few minutes to run the slow way.

In reply to Re: Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 16: RPerl v1.2 Kickstarter Challenge by Cody Fendant
in thread Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 16: RPerl v1.2 Kickstarter Challenge by Will_the_Chill

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