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diff --git a/skel/README b/skel/README
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-This is Rakudo Star, a useful, usable Perl 6 distribution for "early adopters".
-
-This is the 2012.08 release of Rakudo Star.
-
-Rakudo Star is Copyright (C) 2010 - 2012 by the Rakudo Star Team.
-
-License Information
--------------------
-Rakudo Star is distributed under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.
-This distribution contains software collected from other sources; see the
-individual source subdirectories (in parrot/, rakudo/, and modules/) for
-copyright and licensing information of those components.
-
-
-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: 1GB is known to be too small for building 
-Rakudo, while 1.5GB 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/).
-Rakudo can run without ICU, but some Unicode-related features
-will not work properly.
-
-On Debian GNU/Linux or Ubuntu Linux, the necessary components
-for building Rakudo can be installed via the command
-
-    aptitude install build-essential libicu-dev
-
-Readline support also requires the "libreadline-dev" library.
-
-On RedHat/Fedora/CentOS, the components can be installed with
-
-    yum groupinstall development-tools
-    yum install libicu-devel readline-devel
-
-
-Building Rakudo Star
---------------------
-The basic steps to build Rakudo Star are:
-
-    $ perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot
-    $ make
-    $ make install
-
-This will build a Perl 6 executable and install selected
-Perl 6 modules into the install/ subdirectory, which resides
-inside the source archive directory. Running make install
-will *not* install anything into /usr/local. Programs can
-then be run directly using a command like:
-
-    $ ./perl6 hello.pl
-
-Programs can also be run by adding the "install/bin" directory
-to your PATH environment variable.
-
-The "--gen-parrot" option above tells Configure.pl to automatically
-build and install the version of Parrot that is distributed with 
-Rakudo Star.  The "--prefix=" option can be provided to Configure.pl
-to change the location of the install directory.
-
-If your system already has an installed Parrot, Configure.pl will
-look for "parrot_config" in your execution PATH, or the location
-of parrot_config can be explicitly provided to Configure.pl via
-the "--parrot_config" option:
-
-    $ perl Configure.pl --parrot-config=/path/to/bin/parrot_config
-
-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.
-
-
-Running the Perl 6 test suite
------------------------------
-Entering "make rakudo-test" will run a small test suite that comes
-bundled with Rakudo.  This is a simple suite of tests, designed
-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 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.
-
-For more details about running tests, see rakudo/README .
-
-
-Release information
--------------------
-Information about the current release is placed in the docs/
-directory, here is a brief overview:
-
-    docs/cheatsheet.txt   —   Perl 6 cheat sheet
-    docs/announce/        —   detailed release announcements
-
-
-Where to get help or answers to questions
------------------------------------------
-The http://perl6.org/ website contains a great many links to
-resources for Perl 6 development, and is generally the starting
-point for information about Perl 6.
-
-There are several mailing lists, IRC channels, and wikis available
-with help for Perl 6 and Rakudo on Parrot.  Figuring out the right
-one to use is often the biggest battle.  Here are some rough
-guidelines:
-
-If you have a question about Perl 6 syntax or the right way to
-approach a problem using Perl 6, you probably want the
-perl6-users@perl.org mailing list.  This list is primarily
-for the people who want to use Perl 6 to write programs, as
-opposed to those who are implementing or developing the Perl 6
-language itself.
-
-Questions about the Rakudo compiler for Parrot and the Parrot compiler 
-tools can go to perl6-compiler@perl.org.  Discussion about Parrot itself 
-generally takes place on parrot-dev@lists.parrot.org.
-
-The Rakudo and Parrot development teams tend to hang out on IRC a fair
-bit, on irc.freenode.net/#perl6 and irc.parrot.org/#parrot, respectively.
-
-Rakudo's official web site is http://rakudo.org/ , where you can
-find useful information for developers and users alike. 
-
-
-Reporting bugs
---------------
-Bug reports about Rakudo Star or the Perl 6 specification should be 
-sent to rakudobug@perl.org with the moniker [BUG] (including the brackets) 
-at the start of the subject so that it gets appropriately tagged in the 
-RT system (https://rt.perl.org/rt3/).  Please include or attach any sample 
-source code that exhibits the bug, and include either the release name/date 
-or the git commit identifier. You find that information in the output from
-"perl6 --version".  There's no need to Cc: the perl6-compiler
-mailing list, as the RT system will handle this on its own.
-
-
-Submitting patches
-------------------
-Patches to the Rakudo compiler itself should be submitted to
-'rakudobug@perl.org'.  Patches for individual modules should be
-submitted to the module authors (see the module source code for
-details).
-
-We'll generally accept patches in any form if we can get them to work,
-but unified diff from the 'git' command is greatly preferred.
-See further instructions in the rakudo/ subdirectory for more details.
-Other ways to create and submit patches are discussed at
-http://wiki.github.com/rakudo/rakudo/steps-to-create-a-patch.
-
-AUTHOR
-------
-Patrick Michaud (pmichaud@pobox.com) is the primary author and
-maintainer for Rakudo Star. See docs/CREDITS for further Rakudo
-Star authors, and */CREDITS for authors of other collected
-components.
-
diff --git a/skel/docs/CREDITS b/skel/docs/CREDITS
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-=pod
-
-    Following in the steps of other open source projects that
-    eventually take over the world, here is the partial list
-    of people who have contributed to Rakudo and its supporting
-    works.  It is sorted by name and formatted to allow easy
-    grepping and beautification by scripts.
-    The fields are: name (N), email (E), web-address (W),
-    description (D), repository username (U) and snail-mail
-    address (S).
-
-        Thanks,
-
-        The Rakudo Star Team
-        PS: Yes, this looks remarkably like the Linux CREDITS format
-        PPS: This file is encoded in UTF-8
-
-----------
-
-N: Carl Masak
-E: cmasak@gmail.com
-U: masak
-
-N: Jonathan Scott Duff
-U: perlpilot
-E: duff@pobox.com
-
-N: Jonathan Worthington
-U: jnthn
-E: jnthn@jnthn.net
-W: http://www.jnthn.net/
-
-N: Martin Berends
-E: mberends@autoexec.demon.nl
-D: Rakudo patch(es)
-
-N: Moritz Lenz
-E: moritz@faui2k3.org
-U: moritz
-U: moritz_
-D: Test infrastructure, tests, various Rakudo features and built-ins
-
-N: Patrick R. Michaud
-U: pmichaud
-D: Perl 6 (Rakudo Perl) lead developer, pumpking
-E: pmichaud@pobox.com
-
-N: Dave Olszewski
-E: cxreg@pobox.com
-U: cxreg
-D: Bugfixes and moral support
-
-N: Tadeusz Sośnierz
-E: tadzikes@gmail.com
-U: tadzik
-
-=cut
diff --git a/skel/docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf b/skel/docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf
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diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.07 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.07
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-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the July 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
-distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the July 2010 release is
-available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6.  We know that
-it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
-there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
-that aren't implemented yet.  But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
-is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
-and exploring a great new language.  These "Star" releases are
-intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
-the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
-Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  "Rakudo Star" is a distribution that includes
-release #31 of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.6.0 of
-the Parrot Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
-and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.  We
-plan to make Rakudo Star releases on a monthly schedule, with
-occasional special releases in response to important bugfixes or
-changes.
-
-Some of the many cool Perl 6 features that are available in this
-release of Rakudo Star:
-  * Perl 6 grammars and regexes
-  * formal parameter lists and signatures
-  * metaoperators
-  * gradual typing
-  * a powerful object model, including roles and classes
-  * lazy list evaluation
-  * multiple dispatch
-  * smart matching
-  * junctions and autothreading
-  * operator overloading (limited forms for now)
-  * introspection
-  * currying
-  * a rich library of builtin operators, functions, and types
-  * an interactive read-evaluation-print loop
-  * Unicode at the codepoint level
-  * resumable exceptions
-
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a
-"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release.  Some of the not-quite-there
-features include:
-  * nested package definitions
-  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
-  * typed arrays
-  * macros
-  * state variables
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * most of Synopsis 9
-  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-
-Rakudo Star also bundles a number of modules; a partial list of
-the modules provided by this release include:
-  * Blizkost
-      - enables some Perl 5 modules to be used from within Rakudo Perl 6
-  * MiniDBI
-      - a simple database interface for Rakudo Perl 6
-  * Zavolaj
-      - call C library functions from Rakudo Perl 6
-  * SVG and SVG::Plot
-      - create scalable vector graphics
-  * HTTP::Daemon
-      - a simple HTTP server
-  * XML::Writer
-      - generate XML
-  * YAML
-      - dump Perl 6 objects as YAML
-  * Term::ANSIColor
-      - color screen output using ANSI escape sequences
-  * Test::Mock
-      - create mock objects and check what methods were called
-  * Math::Model
-      - describe and run mathematical models
-  * Config::INI
-      - parse and write configuration files
-  * File::Find
-      - find files in a given directory
-  * LWP::Simple
-      - fetch resources from the web
-
-These are not considered "core Perl 6 modules", and as module
-development for Perl 6 continues to mature, future releases
-of Rakudo Star will likely come bundled with a different set
-of modules. Deprecation policies for bundled modules will be
-created over time, and other Perl 6 distributions may choose
-different sets of modules or policies.  More information about
-Perl 6 modules can be found at http://modules.perl6.org/.
-
-Rakudo Star also contains a draft of a Perl 6 book -- see 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed
-in response to important bug fixes or improvements.  The next planned 
-release of Rakudo Star will be on August 24, 2010.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.08 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.08
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-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the August 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
-distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the August 2010 release is
-available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6.  We know that
-it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
-there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
-that aren't implemented yet.  But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
-is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
-and exploring a great new language.  These "Star" releases are
-intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
-the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
-Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  The August 2010 Star release includes release #32
-of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.7.0 of the Parrot 
-Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
-and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the
-previous Star release:
-  * Nil is now undefined
-  * Many regex modifiers are now recognized on the outside of regexes
-  * Mathematic and range operations are now faster (they're still slow,
-    but they're significantly faster than they were in the previous release)
-  * Initial implementations of .pack and .unpack
-  * MAIN can parse short arguments
-  * Removed a significant memory leak for loops and other repeated blocks
-
-This release (temporarily?) omits the Config::INI module that was
-included in the 2010.07 release, as it no longer builds with the 
-shipped version of Rakudo.  We hope to see Config::INI return soon.
-
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a
-"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release.  Some of the not-quite-there
-features include:
-  * nested package definitions
-  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
-  * typed arrays
-  * macros
-  * state variables
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * most of Synopsis 9
-  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed
-in response to important bug fixes or improvements.  The next planned 
-release of Rakudo Star will be on September 28, 2010.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.09 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.09
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-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the September 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
-distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the September 2010 release is
-available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6.  We know that
-it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
-there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
-that aren't implemented yet.  But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
-is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
-and exploring a great new language.  These "Star" releases are
-intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
-the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
-Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  The September 2010 Star release includes release #33
-of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.8.0 of the Parrot 
-Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
-and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the
-previous Star release:
-  * Several performance improvements have been implemented;
-    notably in the slurp() and reverse() functions
-  * The series operator has been refactored and updated to the current 
-    specification
-  * Temporal objects (DateTime, Date, Instant, and Duration) are now 
-    completely implemented
-  * Enumeration objects now conform much closer to the specification
-  * 'now' and 'time' are now terms instead of functions.  This means
-    you can write 'time - 1' and it will do what you mean, but
-   'time()' is no longer valid.
-  * The Perl 6 specification tests [3] are now included in the distribution.
-    
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a
-"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release.  Some of the not-quite-there
-features include:
-  * nested package definitions
-  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
-  * typed arrays
-  * macros
-  * state variables
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * most of Synopsis 9
-  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed
-in response to important bug fixes or improvements.  The next planned 
-release of Rakudo Star will be on October 26, 2010.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
-[3] http://github.com/perl6/roast
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.10 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.10
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@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the October 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
-distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the October 2010 release is
-available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6.  We know that
-it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
-there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
-that aren't implemented yet.  But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
-is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
-and exploring a great new language.  These "Star" releases are
-intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
-the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
-Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  The October 2010 Star release includes release #34
-of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.9.1 of the Parrot 
-Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
-and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the
-previous Star release:
-  * A simple implementation of 'require'
-  * Local timezone is available in $*TZ
-  * Implementations of ms// ss/// (samespace)
-  * Speed improvements to Str.flip
-  * Hyperoperator versions of +=
-  * Improved diagnostic messages and warning messages
-  * True and False now stringify properly
-  * Attribute modification via introspection
-    
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a
-"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release.  Some of the not-quite-there
-features include:
-  * nested package definitions
-  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
-  * typed arrays
-  * macros
-  * state variables
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * most of Synopsis 9
-  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed
-in response to important bug fixes or improvements.  The next planned 
-release of Rakudo Star will be on November 23, 2010.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
-[3] http://github.com/perl6/roast
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.11 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.11
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@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the November 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
-distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the November 2010 release is
-available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6.  We know that
-it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
-there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
-that aren't implemented yet.  But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
-is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
-and exploring a great new language.  These "Star" releases are
-intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
-the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
-Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  The November 2010 Star release includes release #35
-of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.10.1 of the Parrot 
-Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
-and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the
-previous Star release:
-  * qw// is implemented
-  * The .trans method is 5x faster
-  * Indexing with ranges and Whatever offsets now works
-    
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a
-"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release.  Some of the not-quite-there
-features include:
-  * nested package definitions
-  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
-  * typed arrays
-  * macros
-  * state variables
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * most of Synopsis 9
-  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed
-in response to important bug fixes or improvements.  The next planned 
-release of Rakudo Star will be on December 28, 2010.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
-[3] http://github.com/perl6/roast
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.12 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.12
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--- a/skel/docs/announce/2010.12
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@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the December 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
-distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the December 2010 release is
-available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6.  We know that
-it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
-there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
-that aren't implemented yet.  But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
-is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
-and exploring a great new language.  These "Star" releases are
-intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
-the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
-Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  The December 2010 Star release includes release #36
-of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.11.0 of the Parrot 
-Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
-and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the
-previous Star release:
-  * New .trans algorithm
-  * Configuration improvements
-  * More bug fixes
-    
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a
-"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release.  Some of the not-quite-there
-features include:
-  * nested package definitions
-  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
-  * typed arrays
-  * macros
-  * state variables
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * most of Synopsis 9
-  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-Starting with the January 2011 release, Rakudo Star releases will be
-created on a three-month cycle, or as needed in response to important
-bug fixes or improvements.  The next planned release of Rakudo Star
-will be on January 25, 2011.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2011.01 b/skel/docs/announce/2011.01
deleted file mode 100644
index be3c8a3..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/announce/2011.01
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-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the January 2011 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
-distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the January 2011 release is
-available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6.  We know that
-it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
-there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
-that aren't implemented yet.  But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
-is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
-and exploring a great new language.  These "Star" releases are
-intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
-the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
-Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  The January 2011 Star release includes release #37
-of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 3.0.0 of the Parrot 
-Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
-and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the
-previous Star release:
-  * faster subroutine calls (type cache)
-  * implemented 'handles Rolename' trait
-  * 'use Devel::Trace' debugging pragma
-  * improved parsing of keyword boundaries
-  * faster .comb
-    
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-  * nested package definitions
-  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
-  * typed arrays
-  * macros
-  * state variables
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * most of Synopsis 9
-  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-Starting with this January 2011 release, Rakudo Star releases will be
-created on a three-month cycle, or as needed in response to important
-bug fixes or improvements.  (The Rakudo compiler will continue with
-monthly releases.)  The next planned release of Rakudo Star will be 
-in April 2011.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2011.04 b/skel/docs/announce/2011.04
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-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the April 2011 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
-distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the April 2011 release is
-available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6.  We know that
-it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
-there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
-that aren't implemented yet.  But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
-is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
-and exploring a great new language.  These "Star" releases are
-intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
-the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
-Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  The April 2011 Star release includes release #40
-of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 3.3.0 of the Parrot 
-Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
-and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the
-previous Star release:
-  * Modules MiniDBI, form, HTTP::Daemon, Yaml and Module::Tools are
-    removed in this release. 
-  * New modules Pies (including panda, the module installer) and 
-    HTTP::Server::Simple have been added.
-  * New implementation of IO::Socket::INET, with basic IPv6 support
-  * -p and -n command-line options are now available
-  * Many new IO improvements, including stat-related methods
-  * New --ll-backtrace command-line switch for printing PIR level stack traces
-  * Preliminary implementation of Infix 'orelse'
-  * Added Str.indent
-  * Bugfixes to negation meta operator
-  * Support for complex conjugation
-    
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-  * nested package definitions
-  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
-  * typed arrays
-  * macros
-  * state variables
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * most of Synopsis 9
-  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-Rakudo Star releases are created on a three-month cycle, or as 
-needed in response to important bug fixes or improvements.  
-(The Rakudo compiler will continue with monthly releases.)  
-The next planned release of Rakudo Star will be in July 2011.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2011.07 b/skel/docs/announce/2011.07
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@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the July 2011 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
-distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the July 2011 release is
-available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT UPCOMING RELEASES: This is the last Rakudo Star 
-release to use a compiler from the current "master" branch of Rakudo.
-For the past several months, Rakudo compiler development has
-primarily occurred in a separate "nom" ("New Object Model") branch of 
-its repository.  Shortly after this release, the "nom" branch will 
-become the new "master" branch and will be the source for future 
-compiler and Star releases.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  The July 2011 Star release includes release #43
-of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 3.6.0 of the Parrot 
-Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
-and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-The Rakudo team plans to issue another distribution release
-in August 2011 based on the new "nom" compiler.  The new
-compiler contains many improvements over the current line
-of development (including vastly improved performance), but also 
-will not be 100% backwards-compatible due to changes in the 
-Perl 6 language specification and elimination of some workarounds.  
-Existing Rakudo Star users looking for stability should continue 
-to use the July 2011 release as the new distribution releases 
-stabilize over the next several months.
-
-Details about deprecations and migration guidelines will be
-provided in future releases and on rakudo.org .
-
-This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the
-previous Star release:
-  * 10%-30% improvement in compile and execution speed
-  * New gcd (greatest common divisor) and lcm (largest common multiple) operators
-  * Int.base
-  * Call counter for Perl 6-level subroutines
-  * Better handling of &infix:<=> right associativity
-  * Fix bug in exponentiation of negative numbers
-  * Fix building on systems with smaller RAM
-
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-  * nested package definitions
-  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
-  * typed arrays
-  * macros
-  * state variables
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * most of Synopsis 9
-  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
-
-There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features 
-that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star
-2011.07 and other Perl 6 implementations.
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.01 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.01
deleted file mode 100644
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-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the January 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and
-usable distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the January 2012
-release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  This Star release includes release #48 of the
-Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 3.11 of the Parrot Virtual
-Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other
-resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-Significantly, this is the first distribution release based on the
-"nom" (New Object Model) development branch of Rakudo. This work
-has been carried out with the aim of increasing performance and
-correctness, as well as providing a better base for taking on a
-range of missing features. Here are some of the major improvements
-in this release over the previous distribution release.
-
-* Greatly improved performance in many areas. For some scripts, this
-  release offers an order of magnitude performance improvement.
-
-* POD6 support, including the $=POD variable to make the POD available
-  at runtime and a --doc option to get at the POD
-
-* The Int type now has big integer semantics
-
-* Initial work on native types, which can be used to write much
-  more efficient code
-  
-* LTM-driven protoregexes
-
-* Meta-programming support, including custom meta-classes, overriding
-  method dispatch and much more
-  
-* Exception handling is much closer to the specification, and thus much
-  more useful
-
-* Better package handling, including true separate compilation, lexical
-  packages and better nested package handling
-
-* An optimizer, which improves generated code as well as catching
-  a range of issues at compile-time that previously made it to runtime
-
-* Backslash sequences in character classes
-
-* Stubbed methods from roles are now required, providing interface
-  style functionality
-
-* Typed arrays and hashes, as well as supporting for binding to
-  array and hash elements
-
-Due to improvements in the Perl 6 language specification, and
-changes to Rakudo to track them, some existing code will need
-changes. Here are some of the major differences to be aware of.
-
-* Attributes can no longer be initialized using "new" unless they
-  are declared as having an accessor; either give them one or write
-  a BUILD submethod
-
-* The proto keyword is no longer used to declare a multi-dispatch
-  fallback
-
-* You may no longer do 'filename'.lines; use 'filename'.IO.lines
-
-We have maintained backwards compatibility with some changed pieces
-of syntax, but will drop them in an upcoming release:
-
-* "<...>" in proto regex bodies; now this should be written "*"
-
-* The use of "**" with a separator in regexes; this is now done by
-  using "%" or "%%" on another quantifier
-
-While this release does contain a great number of improvements,
-unfortunately we have regressed in a few places. Of note:
-
-* Some cases of auto-vivification do not work
-
-* The binding of a capture against a signature literal is
-  broken
-  
-We will be working to restore this functionality for future
-Rakudo Star releases; if you depend heavily on it, you may
-wish to stick with the previous Rakudo Star release for
-another month. 
-  
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-  * pack and unpack
-  * macros
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * much of Synopsis 9
-
-There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features 
-that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star
-2012.01 and other Perl 6 implementations.
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.02 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.02
deleted file mode 100644
index a32f5da..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.02
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,101 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the February 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and
-usable distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the February 2012
-release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  This Star release includes release #49 of the
-Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.1 of the Parrot Virtual
-Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other
-resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-Here are some of the major improvements in this release over the
-previous distribution release.
-
-* The FatRat type is implemented, and Rat arithmetic now properly
-  defaults to Num if the denominator is too big
-
-* Object hashes are implemented, and can be declared with the syntax
-  my %h{Any} (for a hash with keys of type Any)
-
-* The <Some::Grammar::rulename> syntax is now implemented in regexes;
-  <foo> can also be used to call predeclared lexical rules
-
-* The Int($x) coercion syntax is implemented
-
-* &rename and &copy are now implemented
-
-* Improvements to the reduction meta-operator (order of magnitude faster,
-  some parsing issues fixed)
-
-* The <prior> regex built-in is now available, and matches whatever the
-  last successful match matched
-
-* A $match.make(...) method is available to set the AST for a match
-  object not stored in the $/ variable
-
-* Improved backtraces
-
-This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error
-reporting and better failure modes. Many more exceptions are thrown
-as typed exceptions.
-
-Due to continued evolution of and convergence with the Perl 6 spec, there
-are some changes to existing functionality that may affect your code:
-
-* You may no longer use the $.x form in submethods and attribute
-  initializers, as per spec; use the non-virtual $!x instead.
-
-* The LHS of the xx operator is now thunked
-
-* .conjugate is now called .conj
-
-* Enumeration values .gist to just the key, not the full name
-
-* An empty Buf is now False in boolean context
-
-Currently, we have maintained backwards compatibility with some
-changed pieces of syntax, but will drop them in an upcoming release:
-
-* "<...>" in proto regex bodies; now this should be written "*"
-
-* The use of "**" with a separator in regexes; this is now done by
-  using "%" or "%%" on another quantifier
-  
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-  * pack and unpack
-  * macros
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * much of Synopsis 9
-
-There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features 
-that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star
-2012.02 and other Perl 6 implementations.
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.04 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.04
deleted file mode 100644
index 3acad8c..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.04
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the April 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and
-usable distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the April 2012
-release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  This Star release includes release 2012.04.1 [0] of the
-Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.3 of the Parrot Virtual
-Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other
-resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-Here are some of the major improvements in this release over the
-previous distribution release.
-
-* much improved startup time
-
-* much more robust module precompilation
-
-* autovivification for arrays and hashes is implemented again
-
-* many phasers like PRE, POST and REDO are now implemented
-
-* improved support for calling C functions and modelling structs and arrays
-  via NativeCall.pm6
-
-* now includes modules URI, LWP::Simple, jsonrpc and Bailador (a Perl 6 port
-  of Dancer)
-
-This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error
-reporting and better failure modes. Many more exceptions are thrown
-as typed exceptions.
-
-Some notable incompatible changes from the previous release include
-
- * the 'lib' directory is not included in the default module search path
-   anymore.  You can manipulate the search path with the PERL6LIB environment
-   variable
-
- * 'defined' used to be a prefix operator, and is now a regular subroutine.
-   This means you must updated code that relies 'defined' taking only one
-   argument. For example 'defined $x ?? $a !! $b' should be written as
-   '$x.defined ?? $a !! $b' or 'defined($x) ?? $a !! $b'.
-  
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-  * pack and unpack
-  * macros
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * much of Synopsis 9
-
-There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features 
-that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star
-2012.04 and other Perl 6 implementations.
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-[0] https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2012.04.1
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.05 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.05
deleted file mode 100644
index d6f2575..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.05
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the May 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and
-usable distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the May 2012
-release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  This Star release includes release 2012.05 [0] of the
-Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.4 of the Parrot Virtual
-Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other
-resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-Here are some of the major improvements in this release over the
-previous distribution release.
-
-* -I and -M command-line options
-* support for non-Int enums
-* 'use' now accepts positional arguments and is able to import by tag name
-* 'import' now works
-* basic support for Version literals
-* %*ENV now propagates into subprocesses
-* basic implementation of pack and unpack ported from 'ng' branch
-* fff flip-flop operator is now implemented, ff has been improved
-* various new regex features and improvements
-
-Rakudo now also includes the lib.pm module.
-
-This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error
-reporting and better failure modes. More exceptions are thrown
-as typed exceptions.
-  
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-
-  * macros
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * much of Synopsis 9
-
-There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features 
-that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star
-2012.05 and other Perl 6 implementations.
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-[0] https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2012.05
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.06 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.06
deleted file mode 100644
index 0384ded..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.06
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,82 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the June 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and
-usable distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the June 2012
-release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  This Star release includes release 2012.06 [0] of the
-Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.5 of the Parrot Virtual
-Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other
-resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-Here are some of the major improvements in this release over the
-previous distribution release.
-
-* Transitive longest-token matching in protoregexes
-
-* Longest token matching for alternations
-
-* Enhanced list and .map handling, including laziness fixes and performance
-  improvements
-
-* Can use an argument list with require
-  
-* Compile time errors in loaded modules now show a module loading backtrace
-
-* String to number conversion now recognizes radix notation
-
-* The &push and &unshift functions can now autovivify
-
-* Rakudo is now compiled with the same regex engine that user-space
-  regexes use; some parsing bugs are fixed as a result
-
-* p6doc is now shipped with Rakudo Star. It is a small collection of 
-  user-oriented documentation, along with the `p6doc` script for viewing
-  them.
-
-This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error
-reporting and better failure modes. More exceptions are thrown as typed
-exceptions, and more meta-model errors have been fixed to properly
-report line numbers.
-
-This release contains an important breaking change to number parsing.
-Previously, a string such as "foo" would numify to 0. Now this will
-return a Failure.
-  
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-
-  * macros
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * much of Synopsis 9
-
-There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features 
-that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star
-2012.06 and other Perl 6 implementations.
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-[0] https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2012.06
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.07 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.07
deleted file mode 100644
index d8f5d56..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.07
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,108 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the July 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and
-usable distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the July 2012
-release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  This Star release includes release 2012.07 [0] of the
-Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.6 of the Parrot Virtual
-Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other
-resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-Some of the new features added to this release include:
-
-* Built-in metaobjects (e.g. Metamodel::ClassHOW) now inherit from Any
-
-* &open now supports the :enc/:encoding option
-
-* anonymous subset types (e.g., 'subset :: of Int where { $_ > 0 }')
-
-* Rakudo Star now ships with the Template::Mojo module
-
-This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error
-reporting and better failure modes. More exceptions are thrown as typed
-exceptions, and more meta-model errors have been fixed to properly
-report line numbers.
-
-Starting with this release, we will also identify changes to the
-implementation or specification that can cause breakages in existing
-Perl 6 code.  The following features have been deprecated or modified
-due to changes in the Perl 6 specification, and are being removed
-or changed as follows:
-
-* IO::File and IO::Dir will go away, and &dir now returns values of type
-  IO::Path (which is currently the superclass of IO::File and IO::Dir).
-  The return values of &dir will still stringify to the base name of the
-  returned file and directory names, and you can call .path on them to
-  obtain the full path.
-
-* Leading whitespace in rules and under :sigspace will no longer be
-  converted to <.ws> .  For existing regexes that expect this conversion,
-  add a <?> in front of leading whitespace to make it meta again.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-* The ?-quantifier on captures in regexes currently binds the capture
-  slot to a List containing either zero or one Match objects; i.e., it
-  is equivalent to "** 0..1".  In the future, the ?-quantifier will
-  bind the slot directly to a captured Match or to Nil.  Existing code
-  can manage the transition by changing existing ?-quantifiers to
-  use "** 0..1", which will continue to return a List of matches.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release, but may end up in 2012.09 .
-
-* The method Str.bytes will be removed. To get the number of codepoints
-  in a string, use .codes instead. To get the number of bytes in a
-  given encoding, use $str.encode($encoding).bytes .
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-* The method Str.lcfirst will be removed without replacement.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-* The method Str.ucfirst will eventually be removed, and replaced by
-  Str.tc.
-  No schedule yet, depends on having tc implemented first.
-
-* 'abs' is currently a prefix operator, and will be changed to a normal
-  subroutine.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-* The integer argument to IO::Socket.recv will be interpreted as number of
-  characters/codepoints.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-
-  * macros
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * much of Synopsis 9
-
-There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features 
-that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star
-2012.07 and other Perl 6 implementations.
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-[0] https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2012.07
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.08 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.08
deleted file mode 100644
index f734c36..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.08
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,104 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the August 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and
-usable distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the August 2012
-release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-A Windows .MSI version of Rakudo star will usually appear in
-the downloads area shortly after the tarball release.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  This Star release includes release 2012.08 [0] of the
-Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.6 of the Parrot Virtual
-Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other
-resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-Some of the new features added to this release include:
-
-This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error
-reporting and better failure modes. More exceptions are thrown as typed
-exceptions, and more meta-model errors have been fixed to properly
-report line numbers.
-
-Starting with this release, we will also identify changes to the
-implementation or specification that can cause breakages in existing
-Perl 6 code.  The following features have been deprecated or modified
-due to changes in the Perl 6 specification, and are being removed
-or changed as follows:
-
-[TODO: update the below list]
-
-* IO::File and IO::Dir will go away, and &dir now returns values of type
-  IO::Path (which is currently the superclass of IO::File and IO::Dir).
-  The return values of &dir will still stringify to the base name of the
-  returned file and directory names, and you can call .path on them to
-  obtain the full path.
-
-* Leading whitespace in rules and under :sigspace will no longer be
-  converted to <.ws> .  For existing regexes that expect this conversion,
-  add a <?> in front of leading whitespace to make it meta again.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-* The ?-quantifier on captures in regexes currently binds the capture
-  slot to a List containing either zero or one Match objects; i.e., it
-  is equivalent to "** 0..1".  In the future, the ?-quantifier will
-  bind the slot directly to a captured Match or to Nil.  Existing code
-  can manage the transition by changing existing ?-quantifiers to
-  use "** 0..1", which will continue to return a List of matches.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release, but may end up in 2012.09 .
-
-* The method Str.bytes will be removed. To get the number of codepoints
-  in a string, use .codes instead. To get the number of bytes in a
-  given encoding, use $str.encode($encoding).bytes .
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-* The method Str.lcfirst will be removed without replacement.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-* The method Str.ucfirst will eventually be removed, and replaced by
-  Str.tc.
-  No schedule yet, depends on having tc implemented first.
-
-* 'abs' is currently a prefix operator, and will be changed to a normal
-  subroutine.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-* The integer argument to IO::Socket.recv will be interpreted as number of
-  characters/codepoints.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-
-  * macros
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * much of Synopsis 9
-
-There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features 
-that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star
-2012.08 and other Perl 6 implementations.
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-[0] https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2012.08
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/cheatsheet.txt b/skel/docs/cheatsheet.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b8d104..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/cheatsheet.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-Perl 6 cheat sheet v2                                                »ö«
-
-SIGILS    MAJOR/MINOR CONTEXTS         ACCESS ARRAYS      HASHES
-$scalar   item   list       sink       whole: @array[]    %hash{}
-@array     Str    flat/slice         element: @array[0]   %hash{'a'}
-%hash      Num    lazy/eager/hyper       (or)             %hash<a>
-&code      Bool                        slice: @array[0,2] %hash{'a','b'}
-                       COMPOSERS         (or)             %hash<a b>
-TWIGILS                [ ] array
-$normal-lexical        { } block/hash     AUTOMATIC DEREFERENCE
-$?compiler-constant    < > quotewords     &($foo)(1,2)     == $foo(1,2)
-$*dynamic-or-global    (,) parcel         @($foo)[1]       == $foo[1]
-$.public-accessor      :() signature      %($foo){'bar'}   == $foo<bar>
-$!private-attribute    \() capture        @(@($foo)[1])[2] == $foo[1][2]
-$^positional-param
-$:named-parameter         CONTROL SYNTAX
-$=pod-info                for LIST { }                # implicit $_ arg
-$<named-match-capture>    for LIST -> $a, $b { }      # explicit args
-$~slang-variable          while/until EXPR { }
-                          repeat while/until EXPR { } # do at least once
-OPERATOR PRECEDENCE       loop { }   loop (a;b;c) { } # parens required!
-.method .[] i             if EXPR { } elsif EXPR { } else { }
-++ --                     unless EXPR { }             # no else allowed!
-**                        given EXPR { when EXPR { } default { } }
-unary + - ~ ! ? ^         EXPR if EXPR for LIST;    # list comprehension
-* / % %% div              next, last, redo            # loop controls
-+ -                       proceed, succeed            # switch controls
-x xx       TYPES
-~          Bool Bit Int Rat FatRat UInt Num Complex int32 complex64 etc.
-&          Str Cat Blob Char Byte Codepoint Grapheme Buf buf8 buf32 utf8
-| ^                               IO Mu Any Cool Junction Whatever Match
-sleep abs sin temp                              Parcel Capture Signature
-<=> leg cmp .. but          SCOPE DECLARATORS         Pair Range Set Bag
-~~ > == gt eq === eqv !op   my  lexical scope      KeyHash KeySet KeyBag
-&&                         our  package scope     Scalar Array Hash Code
-|| ^^ // min max           has  instance scope       Enum Order TrigBase
-??!! ff                   anon  no scope at all        Block Routine Sub
-= := op= =>              state  persistent lexical          Method Regex
-so not                 augment  benign parasitic       Failure Exception
-, :                  supersede  deadly parasitic        Instant Duration
-X Xop Z Zop ...                                            Date DateTime
-say die map etc.  OPERATOR DOMAINS
-and               Numeric: ==  !==(!=) + <      >     <=> <=     >=
-or xor            Stringy: eq  !eq(ne) ~ lt     gt    leg le     ge
-<== ==>             Value: eqv  !eqv     before after cmp !after !before
-                 ObjectID: ===  !===
-METAOPERATORS                         LINKS      IRC
-[op] reduce listop to A op B op C...  perl6.org  #perl6 irc.freenode.net
-op=  A = A op B                       rakudo.org #parrot irc.perl.org
-!op  !(A op B)
-»op« hyper/vectorize    REGEX  METACHARS          REGEX MODIFIERS
-Zop  zip with op        ^ $    string begin/end   :i   ignore case
-Xop  cross with op      ^^ $$  line begin/end     :m   ignore marks
-Rop  reverse args       +      one or more        :g   global
-Sop  sequentialize      *      zero or more       :r   ratchet
-                        ?      zero or one        :s   sigspace
-SPECIAL VARIABLES       **1..3 repeat in range    :4th nth occurrence
-$_     current topic    ()     capture to $0,$1   :4x  n times
-$/     regex result     []     no capture
-$!     error object     <foo>  subrule          REGEX CHARCLASSES
-@*ARGS command line     <[]>   character class  .  == anychar, \N non \n
-@*INC  include path     |      parallel or      \s == <space>, \S non
-%*ENV  environment      ||     serial or        \d == <digit>, \D non
-$*PID  process id       « »    word boundary    \w == <+alpha+digit+[_]>
diff --git a/skel/tools/build/Makefile.in b/skel/tools/build/Makefile.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 733793b..0000000
--- a/skel/tools/build/Makefile.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,162 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2006-2012, The Perl Foundation.
-# $Id$
-
-PARROT = parrot-4.6.0
-NQP    = nqp-2012.08
-RAKUDO = rakudo-2012.08
-STAR_VERSION = 2012.08
-
-PARROT_ARGS      =
-
-# values from parrot_config
-PREFIX_DIR         = @prefix@
-PARROT_BIN_DIR     = @bindir@
-PARROT_VERSION     = @versiondir@
-PARROT_INCLUDE_DIR = @includedir@$(PARROT_VERSION)
-PARROT_LIB_DIR     = @libdir@$(PARROT_VERSION)
-PARROT_SRC_DIR     = @srcdir@$(PARROT_VERSION)
-HAS_ICU            = @has_icu@
-
-CC            = @cc@
-CFLAGS        = @ccflags@ @cc_shared@ @cc_debug@ @ccwarn@ @cc_hasjit@ @gc_flag@
-EXE           = @exe@
-LD            = @ld@
-LDFLAGS       = @ldflags@ @ld_debug@
-LD_LOAD_FLAGS = @ld_load_flags@
-LIBPARROT     = @inst_libparrot_ldflags@
-O             = @o@
-LOAD_EXT      = @load_ext@
-PERL          = @perl@
-CP            = @cp@
-MV            = @mv@
-RM_F          = @rm_f@
-MKPATH        = $(PERL) -MExtUtils::Command -e mkpath
-CHMOD         = $(PERL) -MExtUtils::Command -e chmod
-POD2MAN       = @pod2man@
-
-# locations of parrot resources
-PARROT           = $(PARROT_BIN_DIR)/parrot$(EXE)
-NQP_EXE          = $(PARROT_BIN_DIR)/nqp$(EXE)
-PBC_TO_EXE       = $(PARROT_BIN_DIR)/pbc_to_exe$(EXE)
-PARROT_CONFIG    = $(PARROT_BIN_DIR)/parrot_config$(EXE)
-PARROT_TOOLS_DIR = $(PARROT_LIB_DIR)/tools
-PARROT_PERL_LIB  = $(PARROT_TOOLS_DIR)/lib
-OPS2C            = $(PARROT_BIN_DIR)/ops2c$(EXE)
-PMC2C            = $(PERL) $(PARROT_TOOLS_DIR)/build/pmc2c.pl
-PMC2C_INCLUDES   = --include src/pmc --include $(PARROT_SRC_DIR) --include $(PARROT_SRC_DIR)/pmc
-CINCLUDES        = -I$(PARROT_INCLUDE_DIR) -I$(PARROT_INCLUDE_DIR)/pmc
-LINKARGS         = $(LDFLAGS) $(LD_LOAD_FLAGS) $(LIBPARROT) @libs@ @icu_shared@
-
-PERL6_EXE      = perl6$(EXE)
-PERL6_LANG_DIR = $(PARROT_LIB_DIR)/languages/perl6
-
-# This list must be kept in order, modules always coming after their
-# dependencies
-MODULES = \
-  modules/zavolaj \
-  modules/xml-writer \
-  modules/svg \
-  modules/svg-plot \
-  modules/Math-RungeKutta \
-  modules/Math-Model \
-  modules/perl6-Term-ANSIColor \
-  modules/test-mock \
-  modules/Grammar-Profiler-Simple \
-  modules/grammar-debugger \
-  modules/Perl6-MIME-Base64 \
-  modules/uri \
-  modules/perl6-lwp-simple \
-  modules/json \
-  modules/perl6-digest-md5 \
-  modules/perl6-File-Tools \
-  modules/panda \
-  modules/perl6-http-status \
-  modules/perl6-http-easy \
-  modules/Template-Mojo \
-  modules/Bailador \
-  modules/DBIish \
-  modules/jsonrpc \
-  modules/Pod-To-HTML \
-  modules/doc \
-
-all: rakudo
-
-rakudo: $(RAKUDO)/$(PERL6_EXE)
-$(RAKUDO)/$(PERL6_EXE):
-	@echo "== Configuring and building Rakudo"
-	cd $(RAKUDO) && $(PERL) Configure.pl --with-nqp=$(NQP_EXE) && $(MAKE)
-rakudo-test: rakudo
-	cd $(RAKUDO) && $(MAKE) test
-rakudo-spectest: rakudo
-	cd $(RAKUDO) && $(MAKE) spectest
-rakudo-install: rakudo
-	cd $(RAKUDO) && $(MAKE) install
-	@win32_libparrot_copy@
-	$(CP) $(DESTDIR)$(PARROT_BIN_DIR)/$(PERL6_EXE) .
-	$(CHMOD) 755 $(PERL6_EXE)
-
-modules-install: rakudo
-	@echo "== Installing 'ufo'"
-	$(PERL) tools/build/module-install.pl $(DESTDIR)$(PARROT_BIN_DIR)/$(PERL6_EXE) $(DESTDIR)$(PERL6_LANG_DIR)/lib $(MODULES)
-	@echo "== Installing binaries"
-	$(PERL) tools/build/bin-install.pl $(DESTDIR)$(PARROT_BIN_DIR)/$(PERL6_EXE) $(DESTDIR)$(PARROT_BIN_DIR) modules/ufo/bin/ufo modules/panda/bin/panda
-
-install: rakudo-install modules-install
-
-test:
-	@echo ""
-	@echo "To run the Rakudo compiler tests, use 'make rakudo-test'"
-	@echo "To run the Perl 6 spectests, use 'make rakudo-spectest'"
-	@echo ""
-	@echo "To run tests for individual modules, try:"
-	@echo "  prove -e ./perl6 -r modules/<name>/t"
-	@echo ""
-
-##  cleaning
-clean:
-	$(RM_F) $(CLEANUPS)
-
-distclean: realclean
-
-realclean: clean
-	$(RM_F) Makefile
-
-testclean:
-
-
-##  miscellaneous targets
-# a listing of all targets meant to be called by users
-help:
-	@echo ""
-	@echo "Following targets are available for the user:"
-	@echo ""
-	@echo "Maintenance:"
-	@echo "  perlcritic:        Run Perl::Critic on all the Perl 5 code."
-	@echo ""
-	@echo "Cleaning:"
-	@echo "  clean:             Basic cleaning up."
-	@echo "  distclean:         Removes also anything built, in theory."
-	@echo "  realclean:         Removes also files generated by 'Configure.pl'."
-	@echo "  testclean:         Clean up test results."
-	@echo ""
-	@echo "Misc:"
-	@echo "  help:              Print this help message."
-	@echo ""
-
-config:
-	$(PERL) Configure.pl
-
-$(PARROT):
-
-CRITIC_FILES=Configure.pl tools/build/
-
-perlcritic:
-	perlcritic -1 --profile tools/util/perlcritic.conf $(CRITIC_FILES)
-
-msi:
-	-$(CP) c:/strawberry/c/bin/libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll $(PARROT_BIN_DIR)
-	cmd /c heat dir $(PREFIX_DIR) -gg -sfrag -cg RakudoStar -dr INSTALLROOT -srd -out star-files.wxs
-	cmd /c candle star-files.wxs
-	cmd /c candle -dSTARVERSION=$(STAR_VERSION) tools/build/star-product.wxs
-	cmd /c light -b $(PREFIX_DIR) -ext WixUIExtension star-files.wixobj star-product.wixobj -o rakudo-star-$(STAR_VERSION).msi
-
diff --git a/skel/tools/build/bin-install.pl b/skel/tools/build/bin-install.pl
deleted file mode 100644
index 1c71cea..0000000
--- a/skel/tools/build/bin-install.pl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-#! perl
-
-use strict;
-use warnings;
-use File::Spec;
-
-my ($p6bin, $dest, @files) = @ARGV;
-die "Usage: $0 <perl6_binary> <destination_path> <source_files>"
-    unless $p6bin && $dest;
-
-for my $filename (@files) {
-    open my $IN, '<', $filename
-        or die "Cannot read file '$filename' for installing it: $!";
-    my $basename = (File::Spec->splitpath($filename))[2];
-    open my $OUT, '>', "$dest/$basename"
-        or die "Cannot write file '$dest/$basename' for installing it: $!";
-    while (<$IN>) {
-        if ($. == 1 && /^#!/) {
-            print { $OUT } "#!$p6bin\n";
-        }
-        else {
-            print { $OUT } $_;
-        }
-    }
-    close $OUT or die "Error while closing file '$dest/$basename': $!";
-    close $IN;
-    chmod 0755, "$dest/$basename";
-}
diff --git a/skel/tools/build/module-install.pl b/skel/tools/build/module-install.pl
deleted file mode 100644
index 8d69c78..0000000
--- a/skel/tools/build/module-install.pl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,112 +0,0 @@
-#! perl
-
-use warnings;
-use strict;
-use File::Find;
-use File::Copy;
-use File::Path;
-use File::Basename;
-
-my $perl6bin = shift @ARGV;
-my $perl6lib = shift @ARGV;
-
-my @pmfiles;
-my @mod_pms;
-while (@ARGV) {
-    my $module = shift @ARGV;
-    print "== Installing module $module\n";
-    our $mlib  = "$module/lib";
-    
-    @mod_pms = ();
-    find({ no_chdir=>1, wanted => \&libcopy }, $mlib);
-
-    sub libcopy {
-        return unless /\.pm6?|\.pod/;
-        my $source = $File::Find::name;
-        my $target = $source;
-        $target =~ s/\Q$mlib\E/$perl6lib/;
-        print "$source => $target\n";
-        mkpath dirname($target);
-        copy($source, $target) or die "copy failed: $!\n";
-        push @mod_pms, $target if $target =~ /\.pm6?/;
-    }
-    
-    my %usages_of;
-    my @modules;
-    my %module_to_path;
-    for my $module_file (@mod_pms) {
-        open(my $fh, '<', $module_file) or die $!;
-        my $module = path_to_module_name($module_file);
-        push @modules, $module;
-        $module_to_path{$module} = $module_file;
-        $usages_of{$module} = [];
-        while (<$fh>) {
-            if (/^\s* (?:use|need) \s+ (\w+ (?: :: \w+)*)/x and my $used = $1) {
-                next if $used eq 'v6';
-                next if $used eq 'MONKEY_TYPING';
-
-                push @{$usages_of{$module}}, $used;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-    
-    my @order = topo_sort(\@modules, \%usages_of);
-    my @sources = map { $module_to_path{$_} } @order;
-    push @pmfiles, @sources;
-}
-
-# Internally, we treat the module names as module names, '::' and all.
-# But since they're really files externally, they have to be converted
-# from paths to module names, and back again.
-
-sub path_to_module_name {
-    $_ = shift;
-    s/^.+\blib\///;
-    s/^.+\blib6\///;
-    s/\.pm6?$//;
-    s/\//::/g;
-    $_;
-}
-
-chdir 'rakudo';
-foreach my $pm (@pmfiles) {
-    my $out = $pm; 
-    $out =~ s/\.pm6?$/.pir/;
-    my @cmd = ($perl6bin, '--target=pir', "--output=$out", $pm);
-    print join(' ', @cmd), "\n";
-    system(@cmd);
-}
-
-
-# According to "Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen et al., topological
-# sort is just a depth-first search of a graph where you pay attention to
-# the order in which you get done with a dfs-visit() for each node.
-
-sub topo_sort {
-    my ($modules, $dependencies) = @_;
-    my @modules = @$modules;
-    my @order;
-    my %color_of = map { $_ => 'not yet visited' } @modules;
-
-    for my $module (@modules) {
-        if ($color_of{$module} eq 'not yet visited') {
-            dfs_visit($module, \%color_of, $dependencies, \@order);
-        }
-    }
-    return @order;
-}
-
-sub dfs_visit {
-    my $module = shift;
-    my $color_of = shift;
-    my $dependencies = shift;
-    my $order = shift;
-    $color_of->{$module} = 'visited';
-    for my $used (@{$dependencies->{$module}}) {
-        $color_of->{$used} ||= '';
-        if ($color_of->{$used} eq 'not yet visited') {
-            dfs_visit($used, $color_of, $dependencies, $order);
-        }
-    }
-    push @$order, $module;
-}
diff --git a/skel/tools/build/star-product.wxs b/skel/tools/build/star-product.wxs
deleted file mode 100644
index c950e97..0000000
--- a/skel/tools/build/star-product.wxs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

-<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi">

-    <Product Id="*" Language="1033" Manufacturer="Rakudo Perl 6" Name="Rakudo Star $(var.STARVERSION)" UpgradeCode="{08B7EB05-7EAC-4B60-9F5B-AF6E367FE0FD}" Version="1.0.0">

-        <Package Compressed="yes" InstallerVersion="200" />

-

-        <!-- force installation to C: drive -->

-        <Property Id="ROOTDRIVE"><![CDATA[C:\]]></Property>

-

-        <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">

-          <Directory Id="INSTALLROOT" Name="rakudo" />

-

-          <!-- start menu shortcuts, adapted from http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/create_start_menu_shortcut.htm -->

-          <Directory Id="ProgramMenuFolder">

-            <Directory Id="RakudoMenuFolder" Name="Rakudo Perl 6">

-              <Component Id="RakudoStartItems" Guid="B5BD7AEC-C8dC-4F84-AF2E-4A417350D642">

-                <Shortcut Id="RakudoShortcut" 

-                          Name="Rakudo Perl 6"

-                          Target="[INSTALLROOT]bin\perl6.exe" 

-                          WorkingDirectory="INSTALLROOT" />

-                <RemoveFolder Id="RakudoMenuFolder" On="uninstall" />

-                <RegistryValue Root="HKCU" Key="Software\Microsoft\RakudoPerl6" Name="installed" Type="integer" Value="1" KeyPath="yes" />

-              </Component>

-            </Directory>

-          </Directory>

-        </Directory>

-

-        <Feature Id="ProductFeature" Level="1" Title="Rakudo Star $(var.STARVERSION)">

-            <ComponentGroupRef Id="RakudoStar" />

-            <ComponentRef Id="RakudoStartItems" />

-        </Feature>

-        <Media Id="1" Cabinet="product.cab" EmbedCab="yes" />

-

-        <!-- This is just like WixUI_Minimal but we skip the EULA part -->

-        <UI Id="WixUI_Minimal">

-            <TextStyle Id="WixUI_Font_Normal" FaceName="Tahoma" Size="8" />

-            <TextStyle Id="WixUI_Font_Bigger" FaceName="Tahoma" Size="12" />

-            <TextStyle Id="WixUI_Font_Title" FaceName="Tahoma" Size="9" Bold="yes" />

-

-            <Property Id="DefaultUIFont" Value="WixUI_Font_Normal" />

-            <Property Id="WixUI_Mode" Value="Minimal" />

-

-            <DialogRef Id="ErrorDlg" />

-            <DialogRef Id="FatalError" />

-            <DialogRef Id="FilesInUse" />

-            <DialogRef Id="MsiRMFilesInUse" />

-            <DialogRef Id="PrepareDlg" />

-            <DialogRef Id="ProgressDlg" />

-            <DialogRef Id="ResumeDlg" />

-            <DialogRef Id="UserExit" />

-            <DialogRef Id="WelcomeDlg" />

-

-            <Publish Dialog="WelcomeDlg" Control="Next" Event="NewDialog" Value="PrepareDlg">1</Publish>

-            <Publish Dialog="ExitDialog" Control="Finish" Event="EndDialog" Value="Return" Order="999">1</Publish>

-

-            <Publish Dialog="VerifyReadyDlg" Control="Back" Event="NewDialog" Value="MaintenanceTypeDlg">1</Publish>

-

-            <Publish Dialog="MaintenanceWelcomeDlg" Control="Next" Event="NewDialog" Value="MaintenanceTypeDlg">1</Publish>

-

-            <Publish Dialog="MaintenanceTypeDlg" Control="RepairButton" Event="NewDialog" Value="VerifyReadyDlg">1</Publish>

-            <Publish Dialog="MaintenanceTypeDlg" Control="RemoveButton" Event="NewDialog" Value="VerifyReadyDlg">1</Publish>

-            <Publish Dialog="MaintenanceTypeDlg" Control="Back" Event="NewDialog" Value="MaintenanceWelcomeDlg">1</Publish>

-

-            <Property Id="ARPNOMODIFY" Value="1" />

-        </UI>

-

-        <UIRef Id="WixUI_Common" />

-    </Product>

-</Wix>

diff --git a/skel/tools/lib/NQP/Configure.pm b/skel/tools/lib/NQP/Configure.pm
deleted file mode 100644
index e93c366..0000000
--- a/skel/tools/lib/NQP/Configure.pm
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,365 +0,0 @@
-package NQP::Configure;
-use strict;
-use warnings;
-use Cwd;
-
-use base qw(Exporter);
-our @EXPORT_OK = qw(sorry slurp system_or_die
-                    cmp_rev 
-                    read_parrot_config read_config
-                    fill_template_file fill_template_text 
-                    git_checkout
-                    verify_install
-                    gen_nqp gen_parrot);
-
-our $exe = $^O eq 'MSWin32' ? '.exe' : '';
-
-our @required_parrot_files = qw(
-    @bindir@/parrot@exe@
-    @bindir@/pbc_to_exe@exe@
-    @bindir@/ops2c@exe@
-    @libdir@@versiondir@/tools/build/pmc2c.pl
-    @srcdir@@versiondir@/pmc
-    @includedir@@versiondir@/pmc
-);
-
-our @required_nqp_files = qw(
-    @bindir@/nqp@exe@
-);
-
-our $nqp_git = 'git://github.com/perl6/nqp.git';
-our $par_git = 'git://github.com/parrot/parrot.git';
-
-sub sorry {
-    my @msg = @_;
-    die join("\n", '', '===SORRY!===', @msg, "\n");
-}
-
-sub slurp {
-    my $filename = shift;
-    open my $fh, '<', $filename
-        or die "Unable to read $filename\n";
-    local $/ = undef;
-    my $text = <$fh>;
-    close $fh or die $!;
-    return $text;
-}
-
-
-sub system_or_die {
-    my @cmd = @_;
-    system( @cmd ) == 0
-        or die "Command failed (status $?): @cmd\n";
-}
-
-
-sub parse_revision {
-    my $rev = shift;
-    my $sep = qr/[_.]/;
-    $rev =~ /(\d+)$sep(\d+)(?:$sep(\d+))?(?:-(\d+)-g[a-f0-9]*)?$/
-        or die "Unrecognized revision specifier '$rev'\n";
-    return ($1, $2, $3 || 0, $4 || 0);
-}
-
-
-sub cmp_rev {
-    my ($a, $b) = @_;
-    my @a = parse_revision($a);
-    my @b = parse_revision($b);
-    my $cmp = 0;
-    for (0..3) {
-        $cmp = $a[$_] <=> $b[$_];
-        last if $cmp;
-    }
-    $cmp;
-}
-
-
-sub read_config {
-    my @config_src = @_;
-    my %config = ();
-    for my $file (@config_src) {
-        no warnings;
-        if (open my $CONFIG, '-|', "$file --show-config") {
-            while (<$CONFIG>) {
-                if (/^([\w:]+)=(.*)/) { $config{$1} = $2 }
-            }
-            close($CONFIG);
-        }
-        last if %config;
-    }
-    return %config;
-}
-
-
-sub read_parrot_config {
-    my @parrot_config_src = @_;
-    my %config = ();
-    open my $CONFIG_PIR, '>', 'parrot-config.pir'
-      or die "Unable to write parrot-config.pir\n";
-    print $CONFIG_PIR <<'END';
-        .include 'iglobals.pasm'
-        .sub "main" :main
-            .local pmc interp, config_hash, config_iter
-            interp = getinterp
-            config_hash = interp[.IGLOBALS_CONFIG_HASH]
-            config_iter = iter config_hash
-          config_loop:
-            unless config_iter goto config_done
-            $P0 = shift config_iter
-            print "parrot::"
-            $S0 = $P0.'key'()
-            print $S0
-            print "="
-            $S0 = $P0.'value'()
-            print $S0
-            print "\n"
-            goto config_loop
-          config_done:
-            .return ()
-        .end
-END
-    close($CONFIG_PIR);
-    
-    for my $file (@parrot_config_src) {
-        no warnings;
-        if ($file =~ /.pir$/ && open my $PARROT_CONFIG, '<', $file) {
-            while (<$PARROT_CONFIG>) {
-                if (/P0\["(.*?)"\], "(.*?)"/) { $config{"parrot::$1"} = $2 }
-            }
-            close($PARROT_CONFIG) or die $!;
-        }
-        elsif (open my $PARROT, '-|', "$file parrot-config.pir") {
-            while (<$PARROT>) {
-                if (/^([\w:]+)=(.*)/) { $config{$1} = $2 }
-            }
-            close($PARROT);
-        }
-        last if %config;
-    }
-    unlink('parrot-config.pir');
-    return %config;
-}
-
-
-sub fill_template_file {
-    my $infile = shift;
-    my $outfile = shift;
-    my %config = @_;
-    my $text = slurp( $infile );
-    $text = fill_template_text($text, %config);
-    print "\nCreating $outfile ...\n";
-    open(my $OUT, '>', $outfile)
-        or die "Unable to write $outfile\n";
-    print $OUT $text;
-    close($OUT) or die $!;
-}
-
-
-sub fill_template_text {
-    my $text = shift;
-    my %config = @_;
-
-    $text =~ s/@([:\w]+)@/$config{$1} || $config{"parrot::$1"} || ''/ge;
-    if ($text =~ /nqp::makefile/) {
-        if ($^O eq 'MSWin32') {
-            $text =~ s{/}{\\}g;
-            $text =~ s{\\\*}{\\\\*}g;
-            $text =~ s{(?:git|http):\S+}{ do {my $t = $&; $t =~ s'\\'/'g; $t} }eg;
-            $text =~ s/.*curl.*/do {my $t = $&; $t =~ s'%'%%'g; $t}/meg;
-        }
-        if ($config{'makefile-timing'}) {
-            $text =~ s{ (?<!\\\n)        # not after line ending in '\'
-                        ^                # beginning of line
-                        (\t(?>@?[ \t]*)) # capture tab, optional @, and hspace
-                        (?!-)            # not before - (ignore error) lines
-                        (?!cd)           # not before cd lines
-                        (?!echo)         # not before echo lines
-                        (?=\S)           # must be before non-blank
-                      }
-                      {$1time\ }mgx;
-        }
-    }
-    $text;
-}
-
-
-sub git_checkout {
-    my $repo = shift;
-    my $dir  = shift;
-    my $checkout = shift;
-    my $pwd = cwd();
-
-    # get an up-to-date repository
-    if (! -d $dir) {
-        system_or_die('git', 'clone', $repo, $dir);
-        chdir($dir);
-    }
-    else {
-        chdir($dir);
-        system_or_die('git', 'fetch');
-    }
-
-    if ($checkout) {
-        system_or_die('git', 'checkout', $checkout);
-        system_or_die('git', 'pull') 
-            if slurp('.git/HEAD') =~ /^ref:/;
-    }
-
-    my $git_describe;
-    if (open(my $GIT, '-|', "git describe --tags")) {
-        $git_describe = <$GIT>;
-        close($GIT);
-        chomp $git_describe;
-    }
-    chdir($pwd);
-    $git_describe;
-}
-
-
-sub verify_install {
-    my $files = shift;
-    my %config = @_;
-    print "Verifying installation ...\n";
-    my @missing;
-    for my $reqfile ( @{$files} ) {
-        my $f = fill_template_text($reqfile, %config);
-        push @missing, "    $f" unless -e $f;
-    }
-    if (@missing) {
-        unshift @missing, "I'm missing some needed files:";
-    }
-    @missing;
-}
-
-
-sub gen_nqp {
-    my $nqp_want = shift;
-    my %options  = @_;
-
-    my $gen_nqp     = $options{'gen-nqp'};
-    my $with_parrot = $options{'with-parrot'};
-    my $gen_parrot  = $options{'gen-parrot'};
-    my $prefix      = $options{'prefix'} || cwd().'/install';
-    my $startdir    = cwd();
-    my $nqpdir      = "$startdir/nqp";
-
-    my $PARROT_REVISION = 'nqp/tools/build/PARROT_REVISION';
-
-    my %config;
-    my $nqp_exe;
-    if ($with_parrot) {
-        %config = read_parrot_config($with_parrot)
-            or die "Unable to read parrot configuration from $with_parrot\n";
-        $prefix  = $config{'parrot::prefix'};
-        $nqp_exe = fill_template_text('@bindir@/nqp@ext@', %config);
-        %config = read_config($nqp_exe);
-    }
-    elsif ($prefix) {
-        $nqp_exe = "$prefix/bin/nqp$exe";
-        %config = read_config($nqp_exe);
-    }
-
-    my $nqp_have = $config{'nqp::version'} || '';
-    my $nqp_ok   = $nqp_have && cmp_rev($nqp_have, $nqp_want) >= 0;
-    if ($gen_nqp && -d $gen_nqp) {
-        $nqpdir = $gen_nqp;
-        print "Building NQP from source in $nqpdir\n";
-    }
-    elsif ($gen_nqp) {
-        my $nqp_repo = git_checkout($nqp_git, 'nqp', $gen_nqp);
-        $nqp_ok = $nqp_have eq $nqp_repo;
-    }
-    elsif (!$nqp_ok || defined $gen_parrot && !-f $PARROT_REVISION) {
-        git_checkout($nqp_git, 'nqp', $nqp_want);
-    }
-
-    if (defined $gen_parrot) {
-        $PARROT_REVISION = "$nqpdir/tools/build/PARROT_REVISION";
-        my ($par_want) = split(' ', slurp($PARROT_REVISION));
-        $with_parrot = gen_parrot($par_want, %options, prefix => $prefix);
-        %config = read_parrot_config($with_parrot);
-    }
-    elsif (!%config) {
-        %config = read_parrot_config("$prefix/bin/parrot$exe", "parrot$exe");
-        $with_parrot = fill_template_text('@bindir@/parrot@exe@', %config);
-    }
-
-    if ($nqp_ok && -M $nqp_exe < -M $with_parrot) {
-        print "$nqp_exe is NQP $nqp_have.\n";
-        return $nqp_exe;
-    }
-
-    my @cmd = ($^X, 'Configure.pl', "--with-parrot=$with_parrot",
-               "--make-install");
-    print "Building NQP ...\n";
-    chdir($nqpdir);
-    print "@cmd\n";
-    system_or_die(@cmd);
-    chdir($startdir);
-    return fill_template_text('@bindir@/nqp@exe@', %config);
-}
-
-
-sub gen_parrot {
-    my $par_want = shift;
-    my %options  = @_;
-
-    my $prefix     = $options{'prefix'} || cwd()."/install";
-    my $gen_parrot = $options{'gen-parrot'};
-    my @opts       = @{ $options{'parrot-option'} || [] };
-    push @opts, "--optimize";
-    my $startdir   = cwd();
-    my $parrotdir  = "$startdir/parrot";
-
-    my $par_exe  = "$options{'prefix'}/bin/parrot$exe";
-    my %config   = read_parrot_config($par_exe);
-
-    my $par_have = $config{'parrot::git_describe'} || '';
-    my $par_ok   = $par_have && cmp_rev($par_have, $par_want) >= 0;
-    if ($gen_parrot && -d $gen_parrot) {
-        $parrotdir = $gen_parrot;
-        print "Building Parrot from source in $parrotdir\n";
-    }
-    elsif ($gen_parrot) {
-        my $par_repo = git_checkout($par_git, 'parrot', $gen_parrot);
-        $par_ok = $par_have eq $par_repo;
-    }
-    elsif (!$par_ok) {
-        git_checkout($par_git, 'parrot', $par_want);
-    }
-
-    if ($par_ok) {
-        print "$par_exe is Parrot $par_have.\n";
-        return $par_exe;
-    }
-    chdir($parrotdir) or die $!;
-    if (-f 'Makefile') {
-        %config = read_parrot_config('config_lib.pir');
-        my $make = $config{'parrot::make'};
-        if ($make) {
-            print "\nPerforming '$make realclean' ...\n";
-            system_or_die($make, 'realclean');
-        }
-    }
-
-    $prefix =~ s{\\}{/}g;
-
-    print "\nConfiguring Parrot ...\n";
-    my @cmd = ($^X, "Configure.pl", @opts, "--prefix=$prefix");
-    print "@cmd\n";
-    system_or_die(@cmd);
-
-    print "\nBuilding Parrot ...\n";
-    %config = read_parrot_config('config_lib.pir');
-    my $make = $config{'parrot::make'} or
-        die "Unable to determine value for 'make' from parrot config\n";
-    system_or_die($make, 'install-dev');
-    chdir($startdir);
-
-    print "Parrot installed.\n";
-    return fill_template_text('@bindir@/parrot@exe@', %config);
-}
-
-
-1;