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Added explanation of how to get Rakudo without git. Minor punctuation…
… fixes.

Signed-off-by: pmichaud <pmichaud@pobox.com>
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petdance authored and pmichaud committed Feb 26, 2009
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Expand Up @@ -19,7 +19,12 @@ This will create a "perl6" or "perl6.exe" executable in the
current directory. Rakudo doesn't currently have a "make install"
target.

To run a Perl 6 program with Rakudo, issue a command like
If you don't have git installed, you can visit the Rakudo github page
at http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/tree/master and clicking "Download".
Github will build a tarball or zip file for you. From there, unpack
the tarball or zip, and run the C<perl> and C<make> steps above.

To run a Perl 6 program with Rakudo, issue a command like:

$ ./perl6 hello.pl

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it's capable of running a simple test harness.

Running "make spectest" will import relevant portions
of the "official Perl 6 test suite" from the Pugs repository
of the official Perl 6 test suite from the Pugs repository
L<http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/t/spec/> and run all of these tests that
are currently known to pass.

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but unified diff from the C<git> command is greatly preferred. In
general this means that in the C<languages/rakudo/> directory you make your
changes, and then type

git commit -m 'Your commit message'
git-format-patch HEAD^

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=head1 AUTHOR

Patrick Michaud (pmichaud@pobox.com) is the primary author and
Patrick Michaud C<pmichaud@pobox.com> is the primary author and
maintainer for Rakudo Perl 6 on Parrot.

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