Ok I want to Help. Really I actually want to play with something new. There is nothing more exciting than technology as it grows. But to Help I need help. The documentation for Perl 6 and Parrot is confusing me (though through past posts and general comments we can say that in itself is not saying much.) I have installed Parrot. I love pasm, makes me remember my c-64 assembler cartridge. But Perl6 will not work. I know I missing instructions or doing something silly. And I could probably live for the next year or so playing with pasm but that is besides the point.

What I am doing: 

su -
cd /opt
rsync -av --delete cvs.perl.org::parrot-HEAD parrot
cd parrot
perl Configure.pl
make clean
make
make test
make install

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Now parrot itself works fine but I can not find a single document that tells me how to call Perl6 from Parrot. And the readme says parts of Perl6 will not work without ICU. So tonight I plan on downloading ICU from IBM and adding that. My request isn't really for a oh you are doing xyz wrong but more of here is document a which tells you how to install parrot and document b which tells you how to configure Perl6 and use Perl6 with Parrot.

I have been lurking on all the mailing lists and the IRC channels and really like what I am seeing but just need some place to start from. I have been reading all the readmes and docs on parrotcode.org and I am working my way through Parrot and Perl 6 Essentials. though I feel like I am missing the obvious somewhere.

As you can see I wouldn't be the greatest help with Perl 6 yet, but my curiousity is killing me here. Please help

"No matter where you go, there you are." BB

In reply to Re: Yet Another Way To Get Involved With Perl6 by Ninthwave
in thread Yet Another Way To Get Involved With Perl6 by Limbic~Region

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