$ rpm -q rakudo parrot
rakudo-0.6.3-1.fc9.x86_64
parrot-0.6.3-1.fc9.x86_64
$ perl6 -e '"Hello".say;'
Hello
$ perl6 -v
This is Rakudo Perl 6, revision 0 built on parrot 0.6.3
for x86_64-linux-thread-multi.
Copyright 2006-2008, The Perl Foundation.
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Success!
YAPC::NA 2008 round-up
On the first day of YAPC, I gave a talk titled Perl on Fedora.
(Google Docs lost a little formatting in translation, but I've cleaned that up, and I think the results look substantially better than what I actually presented.)
It was the first talk I've given at a conference. I thought it went reasonably well, but I've made a mental note to prepare much further in advance next time, and to learn how to make a presentation that doesn't look lame. (I think I may have a tiny bit of PowerPoint envy.)
On the second day, David Wheeler took some time to talk with me about the Bricolage package I've been working on. It turns out it might actually work as-is, at least for PostgreSQL. I have some work to do to make it work for other databases.
On the third day, I finally got some time to work on my Parrot package. I got it to build with the latest version of Parrot, then broke it to add sub-packages for all the various languages I could figure out how to build. Hopefully Real Soon Now I'll have a rakudo (Perl 6) package, plus packages for a bunch of other random languages like bf.
(Google Docs lost a little formatting in translation, but I've cleaned that up, and I think the results look substantially better than what I actually presented.)
It was the first talk I've given at a conference. I thought it went reasonably well, but I've made a mental note to prepare much further in advance next time, and to learn how to make a presentation that doesn't look lame. (I think I may have a tiny bit of PowerPoint envy.)
On the second day, David Wheeler took some time to talk with me about the Bricolage package I've been working on. It turns out it might actually work as-is, at least for PostgreSQL. I have some work to do to make it work for other databases.
On the third day, I finally got some time to work on my Parrot package. I got it to build with the latest version of Parrot, then broke it to add sub-packages for all the various languages I could figure out how to build. Hopefully Real Soon Now I'll have a rakudo (Perl 6) package, plus packages for a bunch of other random languages like bf.
Monday, March 10, 2008
YAPC::NA 2008 abstract
This talk will cover the current state of Perl development in Fedora (and, by extension, RHEL, CentOS, etc.). Topics will include the following:
- Status of Perl on Fedora
- Using Perl packages
- Using virtual rpm dependencies
- yum, repoquery, etc.
- Packaging Perl modules
- Generating packages using cpanspec
- Building packages with rpmbuild
- Using mock
- Checking for problems with rpmlint
- Submitting packages for inclusion in Fedora
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Goodbye Perl6::Bible. Hello Perl6::Doc.
Ralf and I seem to have discovered independently at nearly the same time that the Perl6::Bible "module" is finally being replaced with Perl6::Doc. I have a perl-Perl6-Doc package sort of ready, but I am not sure what to do about a few things.
- Do we bother to obsolete the perl-Perl6-Bible package? I wouldn't be surprised if I was the only person who bothered installing it.
- If we obsolete the perl-Perl6-Bible package, should we symlink the p6doc script to p6bible on the off chance that anyone was using the p6bible script?
- What do we do about the name conflict with the p6doc script included with Pugs?
Thursday, August 2, 2007
More Perl 6 modules
I know it isn't what I'm supposed to be working on, but I happened to be looking through the list of Perl 6-on-Perl 5 modules on CPAN. I ran the list through cpanspec --follow and came up with another 51 packages.
As I have time, I'll go through the pile, clean them up, and start submitting them for review.
As I have time, I'll go through the pile, clean them up, and start submitting them for review.
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Week in review
Yikes. I seem to have spaced off making any updates this week. Oops.
Earlier this week I updated my pugs package to a svn checkout. It builds fine now, but I still have a ton of rpmlint warnings to address.
In Fedora news, all but one of the packages I submitted last week has been reviewed and approved. I also spent some time working on building my packages for EPEL. That's going to get a lot easier once the Module::Build package's dependencies get worked out.
There's been a lot more progress on the new store. We have permits now, and all the electrical and plumbing in the floor is done. We should have a floor on Tuesday, so either Wednesday or Thursday they should be building walls.
This past Thursday was Emma's 6th birthday. I took her to see the Cardinals/Cubs game. That turned out to be a lot of fun... The Cardinals won 11 to 1, with home runs from Rolen and Pujols and a grand slam from Chris Duncan. Emma seemed to especially enjoy all the fireworks. :-)
Earlier this week I updated my pugs package to a svn checkout. It builds fine now, but I still have a ton of rpmlint warnings to address.
In Fedora news, all but one of the packages I submitted last week has been reviewed and approved. I also spent some time working on building my packages for EPEL. That's going to get a lot easier once the Module::Build package's dependencies get worked out.
There's been a lot more progress on the new store. We have permits now, and all the electrical and plumbing in the floor is done. We should have a floor on Tuesday, so either Wednesday or Thursday they should be building walls.
This past Thursday was Emma's 6th birthday. I took her to see the Cardinals/Cubs game. That turned out to be a lot of fun... The Cardinals won 11 to 1, with home runs from Rolen and Pujols and a grand slam from Chris Duncan. Emma seemed to especially enjoy all the fireworks. :-)
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Parrot build failure
Building parrot on x86_64 without any of the tweaks my spec file does still fails "make test", but it doesn't fail as many tests...
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/compilers/pge/06-grammar.t 0 11 16 26 162.50% 4-16
6 tests and 581 subtests skipped.
Failed 1/295 test scripts, 99.66% okay. 13/7356 subtests failed, 99.82% okay.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Perl 6 microgrant
Apparently I forgot to mention here that I applied for, and was accepted for, one of the Perl 6 Microgrants. I'll be working as much as possible (which, given what's going on with the store, might not be as much as I'd like) on finishing the various Perl 6-related packages for Fedora. I'll be giving regular status updates here, and I've gone back and tagged a couple of old updates appropriately.
By "finish", I mean resolving a few issues (like fixing pugs so it knows about vendor_perl and allows for a arch/noarch split), cleaning up the packages to match the Fedora packaging guidelines and fix anything rpmlint complains about, and actually get the packages accepted in Fedora. Ideally Fedora 8 will support everything Perl 6-related out of the box.
On that note, I tried updating my parrot package tonight at the St. Louis Perl Mongers meeting. The build fails, at least on x86_64.
By "finish", I mean resolving a few issues (like fixing pugs so it knows about vendor_perl and allows for a arch/noarch split), cleaning up the packages to match the Fedora packaging guidelines and fix anything rpmlint complains about, and actually get the packages accepted in Fedora. Ideally Fedora 8 will support everything Perl 6-related out of the box.
On that note, I tried updating my parrot package tonight at the St. Louis Perl Mongers meeting. The build fails, at least on x86_64.
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/compilers/pge/06-grammar.t 0 11 16 26 162.50% 4-16
t/examples/shootout.t 1 256 20 1 5.00% 16
6 tests and 587 subtests skipped.
Failed 2/295 test scripts, 99.32% okay. 14/7356 subtests failed, 99.81% okay.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Pugs hates me
My new notebook is finally running somewhat stably (more on that later), so I took it and got out of the store for a while today to work on my pugs and parrot packages. I lost a bit of time because I didn't have all the necessary development packages installed, and it's a lot slower to install a bunch of packages over the Internet than over a gigabit LAN. Still, eventually I got everything installed on the laptop, and I tried to build pugs. The build failed. To make a long story short, I eventually tried building on my desktop, which built pugs fine a few months ago. It failed there too.
So apparently something in Fedora 7 (likely a newer version of ghc, if I had to guess) breaks pugs. Whee.
I think I may just jump to a svn checkout next to see if that builds.
So apparently something in Fedora 7 (likely a newer version of ghc, if I had to guess) breaks pugs. Whee.
I think I may just jump to a svn checkout next to see if that builds.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Perl 6 update
I've been working for around a year now on packaging everything Perl 6-related for Fedora. For a while now, everyone has been able to install perl-Perl6-Bible to get the available Perl 6 documentation. I also have been working on packages for Parrot and Pugs. Those packages aren't quite done, but I've submitted them for review so everyone knows I'm working on them.
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