On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 06:10:21PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> 2008/8/29 Allison Randal:
> > Reini Urban wrote:
> >> Current exceptions for the "parrot-" prefix:
> >> perl6
> >
> > Actually, that probably won't be an exception to the "parrot-" prefix on the
> > package name, since there are multiple implementations of Perl 6.
>
> Ok, so there will be pugs, perl -Mv6 and rakudo | parrot-perl6
> Maybe both /usr/bin/rakudo and /usr/bin/perl6 should be symlinked to
> /usr/bin/parrot-perl6 then.
> Currently there's only a /usr/bin/perl6 being installed.
>
> This really should be made ready for the September release.
>
> > Again, it should be a configuration option to install aliases for
> > executables with the language "nicknames". Not a requirement for the
> > packaged versions, but the $0 handling will be built in to Parrot, so the
> > user could also easily create their own 'ln -s' aliases.
>
> Good idea.
> Within the PCT::HLLCompiler I assume.
PCT::HLLCompiler can't do it alone -- it will have to be part of the Parrot
invocation in order to work. Thus my earlier comment/question [1] about this
thread being related to the comments in RT #47992.
[1] http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl6.internals/msg/d9c8af92ed2ab04d
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