Installing and Using Perl 6 Modules

By Geoffrey Broadwell (‎japhb‎)
Date: Monday, 3 June 2013 10:45
Duration: 45 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: 6 p6 perl6 rakudo


Elucidation of existing facilities within the Perl 6 ecosystem that exist alongside the implementations. Explanation of the Rakudo Star distribution; explanation of the Synopses' specs on module loading and dependencies, exports/imports, explanation of current thinking on separate compilation, module loading, and module installation. Thorough demonstrations of panda and related tools. Investigations into ideas for future module repositories and installers and/or enhancements to panda. Discussion of difficulties of installing modules so they load efficiently.

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