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authorMoritz Lenz <moritz@faui2k3.org>2012-01-28 18:08:24 +0100
committerMoritz Lenz <moritz@faui2k3.org>2012-01-28 18:08:59 +0100
commit4ef2ccc0ac958c773d8e57efcfb2ad77accadea0 (patch)
treec89d81840b6bca976e2b4ce38c44c3bc89e083bf
parentb6ec842eba5f87db4fad0626a4d7501c232d0956 (diff)
make skel/README less outdated
-rw-r--r--skel/README20
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/skel/README b/skel/README
index 1fc6c7b..fa391b9 100644
--- a/skel/README
+++ b/skel/README
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
This is Rakudo Star, a useful, usable Perl 6 distribution for "early adopters".
-This is the 2011.07 release of Rakudo Star.
+This is the 2012.01 release of Rakudo Star.
-Rakudo Star is Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 by the Rakudo Star Team.
+Rakudo Star is Copyright (C) 2010 - 2012 by the Rakudo Star Team.
License Information
-------------------
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ Build Prerequisites
-------------------
To build Rakudo Star you need at least a C compiler, a 'make' utility,
and Perl 5.8.4 or newer. You probably also want a machine with a fair
-amount of memory available: 256MB is known to be too small for building
-Rakudo, while 1GB is generally known to be sufficient.
+amount of memory available: 1GB is known to be too small for building
+Rakudo, while 2GB is generally known to be sufficient.
In order to fully support Unicode, you'll also want to have the
ICU library installed (http://site.icu-project.org/).
@@ -76,11 +76,6 @@ If the Rakudo compiler is invoked without an explicit script to
run, it enters a small interactive mode that allows Perl 6 statements
to be executed from the command line.
-To build and install "Blizkost" to gain the ability to use Perl 5
-modules from Perl 6, use:
-
- $ make blizkost-install
-
Running the Perl 6 test suite
-----------------------------
@@ -90,15 +85,14 @@ to make sure that the Rakudo compiler is basically working and that
it's capable of running a simple test harness.
Running "make spectest" in the rakudo/ subdirectory will import
-the official Perl 6 test suite from the Pugs repository
-(http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/t/spec/) and run all of these tests
+the official Perl 6 test suite from the roast repository
+(https://github.com/perl6/roast/) and run all of these tests
that are currently known to pass.
If you want to automatically submit the results of your spectest run
to a central server, use 'make spectest_smolder' instead. You need
the Perl 5 module 'TAP::Harness::Archive' and an active internet
-connection for that. The smoke results are collected at
-http://smolder.plusthree.com/app/public_projects/details/18.
+connection for that.
For more details about running tests, see rakudo/README .