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When is Perl 6 going to be a standard installed package for the Linux distributions (Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu)?
by HeadlessChild 11y ago
When is Perl 6 going to be a standard installed package for the Linux distributions (Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu)?
- perlgeek 11y agoI don't think anybody can predict the future well enough to answer that. Languages become part of the standard installation by having very commonly used toos written in them. I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure ruby isn't part of a standard Debian installation, and neither is lua, for example. Ruby is very popular for web apps, but you don't need web apps to boot the computer, start a GUI and install packages, so it's not part of the standard installation. But it's only an 'apt-get install ruby2.1' or so away, and so is rakudo (the current Perl 6 implementation). The debian package in stable is outdated, but work on newer versions is in progress. (Don't know about CentOS, sorry).