Hi there! First of all thank you for rakudobrew - it's totally awesome!
As I play more and more with Perl 6, I feel I want to stay as up-to-date as possible with the current state of the code. However, I'm having trouble finding a good way to know whether I should update or not.
I mean, I know rakudobrew build moar will build the latest release on moarvm, but a few questions arise:
- is it the latest stable? Or the latest blead? Or none of the above?
- do I already have it? (rebuilding takes a while, I don't want to do it unless I have to)
If I type rakudobrew list-available I get a HUGE list of builds with no apparent naming hints to let me know which is stable or which is new (other than a few YYYY.MM releases). Also, when I type "list" I get only "moar-nom", which hints it as the "nom" branch, and from what I could gather "nom" is the name of a "new object model" branch created in 2011, which is... strange :)
So here's what I'd love to see on rakudobrew: a way to tell if there is a new version available for my local build(s) without having to ask for a complete rebuild :)
As a bonus, if list-available would sort by last commit date and show the date, it would definitely help too!
When releases are versioned (like rakudo YYYY.MM and perl 5.22.1), it's easy to see what you have and whether it has been superseded by a newer version or not. But "build moar" currently leaves me wondering in the dark :(
What do you think?
Hi there! First of all thank you for rakudobrew - it's totally awesome!
As I play more and more with Perl 6, I feel I want to stay as up-to-date as possible with the current state of the code. However, I'm having trouble finding a good way to know whether I should update or not.
I mean, I know
rakudobrew build moarwill build the latest release on moarvm, but a few questions arise:If I type
rakudobrew list-availableI get a HUGE list of builds with no apparent naming hints to let me know which is stable or which is new (other than a few YYYY.MM releases). Also, when I type "list" I get only "moar-nom", which hints it as the "nom" branch, and from what I could gather "nom" is the name of a "new object model" branch created in 2011, which is... strange :)So here's what I'd love to see on rakudobrew: a way to tell if there is a new version available for my local build(s) without having to ask for a complete rebuild :)
As a bonus, if
list-availablewould sort by last commit date and show the date, it would definitely help too!When releases are versioned (like rakudo YYYY.MM and perl 5.22.1), it's easy to see what you have and whether it has been superseded by a newer version or not. But "build moar" currently leaves me wondering in the dark :(
What do you think?