orange has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi
pmichaud announced that rakudo star will be available in july 29: http://rakudo.org/node/73
my wishes:
1- ready binaries for different systems at the same date of releasing source, especially for windows,
it is much more convenient, as an example i have tried to build the current kiev release but i got all sorts of errors; the major one:
fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'perl6_ops.c': No such file or directory
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2' Stop.
C:\rakudo-2010.06># Parsing perl6.ops... # Parsed perl6.ops in 3.969 seconds; found 71 ops. # Ops parsed in 3.984 seconds.
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and the program stuck here, even the file perl6_ops.c i have found in the rakudo folder, i have tried different perl versions, activestate and strawberry, nmake and mingw32-make without success, so i must wait a month before trying the kiev release
2- a working opengl support, in the partially built rakudo i can run the example parrot.exe shapes.pir successfully, but i can't check the status with perl6.exe because it is not there ;the package are partially built.
3- best wishes for the perl6 team and developers, and supporters.

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Re: Rakudo Star , some wishes
by moritz (Cardinal) on Jun 20, 2010 at 09:39 UTC
    1- ready binaries for different systems at the same date of releasing source, especially for windows

    This will be rather easy if somebody steps up and builds the binaries. I fear that most Rakudo developers lack the expertise to do themselves.

    but i got all sorts of errors

    Please file a bug report by sending a mail to rakudobug@perl.org, telling us your exact OS, compiler and compiler version, and include the full build log.

    2- a working opengl support

    Again this depends on somebody contributing it. The main Rakudo developers are busy with improving the compiler, the infrastructure for the Rakudo Star distribution, and also trying to get the Perl 6 book to a state where we can ship it.

    Implementing modules at user request happens from time to time, but it's nothing you should count on. If you care, either do it yourself, or find somebody who does it for you. Once such a module exists, it will be relatively easy to get it into the Rakudo Star distribution.

    But even if it doesn't work for this Rakudo Star release, not all is lost. If Rakudo Star turns out to be well received, we plan to do follow-up distribution releases.

    3- best wishes for the perl6 team and developers, and supporters

    Thank you.

    Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.
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Re: Rakudo Star , some wishes
by morgon (Priest) on Jul 22, 2010 at 22:38 UTC
    I have not been following Perl 6 for years now but I am eagerly waiting for Rakudo Star.

    My question at the moment is:

    Does anybody know whether Rakudo Star will come with a self-contained documentation (or maybe even a tutorial?) of the current state of the Perl 6 language (or the subset that it implements) or would I need to look for other sources to get into Perl 6 (I am not too keen on reading all the synopes and apocalypes and what not)?

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      Note that http://perl6.org/ contains links to many other resources (beside the synopsis) that can help you to learn Perl 6, including the book chromatic has mentioned, my 5 to 6 series, and much more.
      Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.
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        Both are good resources, but I especially like moritz's 5 to 6 series.

        No clutter, just facts - I like the style.

        Please keep it up.

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      Rakudo Star will include the Rakudo Star book, a self-contained tutorial describing the Perl 6 features available in Rakudo Star.

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