parrot-0.6.3 with parrot-perl6

First, thank you for working on this!

Now some comments

Thu, 2008-07-03 at 19:07 +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
parrot-languages is my compressed version of the fedora split,
they have for every single language a seperate package.

Thank you for choosing the single-package route here.

I just left the docs/examples, the others stripped it.
pdb is called parrot_pdb, disassemble is called pbc_disassemble.

Both of these are good changes (and I don't think the other packagers
should have stripped the examples; they are arguably necessary to
understand certain constructions, since our official docs are not
complete and are difficult to navigate in places).

.include searchpath:
/usr/runtime/parrot/include
/usr/runtime/parrot
/usr
/usr/lib/parrot/include
/usr/lib/parrot/
.

/usr/runtime doesn't seem "right" to me (and it's not FHS-compliant,
IIRC). I notice that none of your packages install to /usr/runtime, and
I'd prefer to just drop it. Why is raw '/usr' included?

Side note to the Parrot Porters: the redundant 'parrot' directory under
'runtime' in the source tree makes no sense to me. I'm in favor of
moving its three subdirectories up a level, and dropping the extra
cruft.

/usr/share/doc/parrot/LICENSE
/
/usr/share/doc/parrot/TD

Should probably include NEWS here in the main parrot package; for the
last year and a half, all of the key updates have been listed there
(ChangeLog is only useful for historical spelunking, and can be placed
in -devel). Also, CREDITS fills in a lot of details that
RESPNSIBLE_PARTIES leaves out, and it arguably belongs in the main
package right next to the LICENSE. Plus it maximizes karma exposure for
our valued contributor base; for the same reason, I'd vote for
DNRS.pod here as well. A "binary package" version of the official
README that drops the PREREQUISITES, INSTRUCTINS, and NTES blocks
seems like a good idea too.

DEPRECATED.pod and PBC_CMPAT need to be in the -devel package.

Speaking of all these docs, do the various distro ports/packages include
manpages (at least a minimal 'parrot' manpage, as I believe Debian and
BSD require to comply with their respective policies)?


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