From 4ef2ccc0ac958c773d8e57efcfb2ad77accadea0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Moritz Lenz Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:08:24 +0100 Subject: make skel/README less outdated --- skel/README | 20 +++++++------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'skel/README') diff --git a/skel/README b/skel/README index 1fc6c7b..fa391b9 100644 --- a/skel/README +++ b/skel/README @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ This is Rakudo Star, a useful, usable Perl 6 distribution for "early adopters". -This is the 2011.07 release of Rakudo Star. +This is the 2012.01 release of Rakudo Star. -Rakudo Star is Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 by the Rakudo Star Team. +Rakudo Star is Copyright (C) 2010 - 2012 by the Rakudo Star Team. License Information ------------------- @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ Build Prerequisites ------------------- To build Rakudo Star you need at least a C compiler, a 'make' utility, and Perl 5.8.4 or newer. You probably also want a machine with a fair -amount of memory available: 256MB is known to be too small for building -Rakudo, while 1GB is generally known to be sufficient. +amount of memory available: 1GB is known to be too small for building +Rakudo, while 2GB is generally known to be sufficient. In order to fully support Unicode, you'll also want to have the ICU library installed (http://site.icu-project.org/). @@ -76,11 +76,6 @@ If the Rakudo compiler is invoked without an explicit script to run, it enters a small interactive mode that allows Perl 6 statements to be executed from the command line. -To build and install "Blizkost" to gain the ability to use Perl 5 -modules from Perl 6, use: - - $ make blizkost-install - Running the Perl 6 test suite ----------------------------- @@ -90,15 +85,14 @@ to make sure that the Rakudo compiler is basically working and that it's capable of running a simple test harness. Running "make spectest" in the rakudo/ subdirectory will import -the official Perl 6 test suite from the Pugs repository -(http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/t/spec/) and run all of these tests +the official Perl 6 test suite from the roast repository +(https://github.com/perl6/roast/) and run all of these tests that are currently known to pass. If you want to automatically submit the results of your spectest run to a central server, use 'make spectest_smolder' instead. You need the Perl 5 module 'TAP::Harness::Archive' and an active internet -connection for that. The smoke results are collected at -http://smolder.plusthree.com/app/public_projects/details/18. +connection for that. For more details about running tests, see rakudo/README . -- cgit v1.1