I’ve been fooling around with pre-built Rakudo packages on Travis CI so I figured that I should do the same on AppVeyor. Last night I had a Ubuntu build that […]
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Use pre-built Rakudo packages on Travis CI
I changed my Perl 6 Travis setup so I’m not using the community supported Perl 6. That one builds rakudo and sometimes it exhausts the memory. Even if it didn’t […]
Read moreTest a module version
The META6.json file has metadata for a Perl 6 module. But I like to also put things in the module file. I’d rather have some of that stuff with the […]
Read moreQuick Trick: Catching a Perl 6 warning
While testing a module I wanted to check that a deprecation warning shows up. Warnings are a special sort of exception that you can catch in a CONTROL block.
Read moreRakudo Star on AppVeyor
UPDATE – Rakudo is now in Chocolatey so most of this is really easy now. AppVeyor provides continuous testing on Windows. I wanted to try it with Perl 6 since […]
Read moreTesting JSON grammars
Perl 6 grammars make it easy to parse JSON and it’s a favorite example to show off the feature. This post is about testing the grammar; you don’t need another […]
Read moreQuick Tip #23: Use prove to run Perl 6 tests
You can run Perl 6 tests with prove. Forget for a moment that prove is a Perl 5 tool. It’s just some tool that’s magically on your system. It’s a […]
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