#perl6, pugscode.org, and more

[Autrijus Tang]

Hi. As my today's journal ( http://use.perl.org/~autrijus/journal/23258 )
announced, we have created a #perl6 channel on freenode to discuss
everything about perl6, in particular to coordinate development of
the Perl6 Compiler and Pugs. All is welcome to join.

Also, I've registered http://pugscode.org/ and populated it with some
basic information. As the site says, I'm handing out committer bits
pretty liberally, so if you are willing to patch things, write tests,
and hang out on IRC, please contact the team on IRC or by mail. :)

See you on #perl6!

Thanks,
/Autrijus/

[Aaron Sherman]

On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 02:07 +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:

> Also, I've registered http://pugscode.org/ and populated it with some
> basic information.

>From the README:

Pugs needs the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) 6.2 or above. To
install GHC, download a binary build from
http://haskell.org/ghc/. Although source code for GHC is
available, it will take a very long time to build by yourself.

Since obviously this compiler is being used for real work, has anyone
considered petitioning the major Linux distribution vendors to include
it in their upcoming releases? For example, I'm sure Fedora would pick
it up, given that it's being used in the development of the next major
version of an important core tool / language (Perl).

Obviously, we can all manage to download and install a compiler, but I
for one have been trying to make sure that anything truly useful is not
managed this way on my machines.

I would petition the projects that I know about, but I don't know
anything about Haskell, and it would be presumptuous of me.

[Aaron Sherman]

On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 07:43 -0500, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> has anyone considered petitioning the major Linux distribution vendors
> to include it in their upcoming releases?

[...]

> I don't know anything about Haskell, and it would be presumptuous of
> me.

Face... so... red...

Ignore me, this is already under way (and being quite well managed, it
seems at http://www.haskell.org/fedora/ for the Fedora platform).
They're pushing to get included in Fedora's "extras".

[Rafael Garcia-Suarez]

Aaron Sherman wrote in perl.perl6.compiler :

I've included it in Mandrakelinux's contribs. It's a huge RPM, but we
may try to find place for it on the editions that come with the largest
number of CDs :)

[Steve Peters]

Also, its available through portage on Gentoo, but I suggest going and doing
something else while compiling ;)

Steve Peters
st...@fisharerojo.org