[Purdue-pm] Rakudo Star vs. rakudobrew

[Mark Senn]

SUMMARY

At this point, rakudobrew should probably only be used by people developing
the perl 6 spec, and/or rakudo & components. If you want to *use* Perl 6,
you want Rakudo Star.  I've been using Rakudo Star and have been very happy
with it.


DETAILS

>Subject: Re: Confused about rakudobrew and Rakudo Star
>From: Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
>To: Brock Wilcox <awwaiid at thelackthereof.org>
>Cc: James E Keenan <jkeen at verizon.net>, perl6-users <perl6-users at perl.org>
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>
>On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 7:44 AM, Brock Wilcox <awwaiid at thelackthereof.org>
>wrote:
>
>> I see Moritz replied to this also saying that the tarball is the way to
>> go. I'd love to know what I'm missing out on by doing it this way.
>
>Probably nothing right now.
>
>The big issue will come later: rakudo HEAD will be working toward a v6.d
>spec in the future, while Star will continue to target v6.c. (I think I've
>already seen a v6.d-targeted proposed spec change.) So Star will get you a
>stable language, whereas rakudobrew will get you a moving target that might
>produce surprises.
>
>At this point, rakudobrew should probably only be used by people developing
>the perl 6 spec, and/or rakudo & components. If you want to *use* Perl 6,
>you want Star.
>
>-- 
>brandon s allbery kf8nh                               sine nomine associates
>allbery.b at gmail.com                                  ballbery at sinenomine.net
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