From c012d8b882480151d8eb7da92c4cca80d1d9b814 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pmichaud Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:36:53 -0500 Subject: Move skel/ into top-level directory, to try building directly from the repo. --- README.star | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.star (limited to 'README.star') diff --git a/README.star b/README.star new file mode 100644 index 0000000..faa2aa7 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.star @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Rakudo Star -- a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6 + +Rakudo Star is a distribution of Perl 6 aimed at early adopters. +This git repository isn't the distribution itself; the repository +contains the tools and scripts used to create a distribution. + +If you're looking to simply download and run the latest release +of Rakudo Star, please download a .tar.gz file from +http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads . + +If you're still reading this, we assume you're a Rakudo Star +release manager, or someone that is looking to create new +Perl 6 distributions based on the tools here. Run +"make VERSION=yyyy.mm" to populate a distribution image +into the rakudo-star-yyyy.mm/ directory. + +The build system assumes that you have the following tools available: + + * perl + * make + * git + * wget + * cp + * find + * tar + * touch + +See for a list +of modules we want included in the distribution. + +The skel/ directory contains the basic layout of documentation and +other support files, other components are then populated into +the target directory via the make command above. + +To create a candidate release tarball, try "make release VERSION=yyyy.mm". -- cgit v1.1