Re: Importing Perl 6 and friends

[Matt Sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

> On Sep 16, 2017, at 3:17 PM, Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> After the next branch, I would like to 
> 
> - remove lang/rakudo-star (which is four years old at this point), 
> - update lang/nqp from its wip version and 
> - import wip/rakudo as lang/rakudo.
> 
> Rakudo Star is Rakudo plus a set of core modules, while Rakudo is just the interpreter. Packaging the modules separately is much easier and cleaner from a packager perspective.
> 
> Thanks to mspo@, we have a number of working Perl 6 modules in wip, though they could benefit from a framework.
> 
> Anyone using the old rakudo-star package, please speak up.
> 
> —Benny.

Thanks I know I dropped the ball half way through star. If it is any consolation I managed to make some noise upstream about the crazy/random file names and the like. 

If we both keep at it we will get something usable soon. 

Please proceed asap imho. QED. PhD. IKWYN. etc