Yep, I knew what you meant! I'm in the process of writing this up right now, assuming I can finish compiling Haskell sometime this week (it ain't exactly a fast compile, hrmph). --Michael Mathews <onperl.org> On 21/05/06, James Peregrino <james_peregrino@harvard.edu> wrote: > You folks took me too literally :) I meant: Given a system without > pugs/parrot/haskell (I assume perl5 is required), what are the things you > need to install so that you can say > > perl6 -e "say 'hello world'" > > i.e. > > tar xf ghc.tar.gz > ./configure > make > make install > > tar xf parrot.tar.gz > make > make test > make install > > tar xf pugs.tar.gz > perl Makefile.PL > make > make test > make install > > vi hello.p6 > > #!/usr/local/bin/pugs > > say "hello world"; > > Naturally it's much more complicated than that (choosing binary > distributions, whether to get a source ball or svn, whether to run make > test, etc). But new users might not know that perl6=pugs right now and > haskell is needed. And where parrot fits in... > > -james > >Thread Previous | Thread Next