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| author | sue spence <virtuallysue@gmail.com> | 2017-11-12 11:46:43 +0000 |
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| committer | sue spence <virtuallysue@gmail.com> | 2017-11-12 11:46:43 +0000 |
| commit | 85a9abd81a4e8ca3e48da13e3c0f60f8f092fc78 (patch) | |
| tree | 412f0421b72b788bf9f7a4ffc5f6127eaf60544e | |
| parent | b14f160438dd3191b49278fd0bc1c44a930d2af5 (diff) | |
Reworded to help people like me who stumble onto this repo by accident
when searching for rakudo star related info.
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 19 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 12 deletions
@@ -1,17 +1,12 @@ -Rakudo Star -- a useful and usable production distribution of Perl 6 +This git repository _only_ contains the tools needed to create a Rakudo Star distribution. -This git repository isn't the distribution itself; the repository -contains the tools and scripts used to create a distribution. +To get the latest release of Rakudo Star, please download a .tar.gz or .msi file from +https://rakudo.perl6.org/downloads/star/. Note: the tar files available from github.com +are NOT suitable for building Rakudo Star; do not use them. -If you're looking to simply download and run the latest release -of Rakudo Star, please download a .tar.gz or .msi file from -https://rakudo.perl6.org/downloads/star/. Note: the tar files available -from github.com are NOT suitable for building Rakudo Star; do not use them. - -If you're still reading this, we assume you're a Rakudo Star -release manager, or someone that is looking to create new -Perl 6 distributions based on the tools here. Run -"make -f tools/star/Makefile" to populate a distribution image. +If you're a Rakudo Star release manager, or someone who wants to create a new Perl 6 +distributions based on the tools here, then run "make -f tools/star/Makefile" to +populate a distribution image. See tools/star/release-guide.pod for the steps needed to build a candidate release. |