[Pkg-parrot-devel] Hello

[Guy Hulbert]

On Mon, 2009-16-03 at 11:28 -0700, Allison Randal wrote:
> Guy Hulbert wrote:
> > 
> > I'm on perl6-users (I think).  If I do anything with Parrot, it will be
> > using Io, I think.  I'm writing a big perl5 app -- not at 0.1 yet :-( --
> > and I'm interested in using Parrot as assembler rather than C/Swig ...
> 
> Yes, definitely go to the parrot-dev list for that. (An implementation 
> of Io in Parrot would be great.)

I need to learn Io first.  I'm subscribed to a number of lists ...

> 
> > Awesome.  Could you post the location to the list ... I'm running etch
> > at the moment ... if they're packaged for Sid, I might mess around with
> > backporting them.
> 
> They're packaged for sid (unstable), but I happen to know they build on 
> etch (oldstable) too, since I run chroots for both. Can easily pass 

I looked at setting up chroots in January (for perl packaging) but ran
out of time ... I got as far as discovering that the sid version of
cdebootstrap is required.

> along the etch packages if you'd like, or point you at our debian 
> packaging guide for Parrot.

I guess a URL to the top of the debian parrot stuff is probably
sufficient for now.  I'm much busier at the moment than I anticipated a
few months ago but I expect to have some time towards May.

> 
> Allison

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