zef, the package manager for Rakudo, needs to be installed as part of the port

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi raf;

  Thanks for your reply.  Perhaps a note could be placed in the rakudo
port stating that zef can be obtained separately and the instructions
for installing it? Then others, who are new to Rakudo via MacPorts
like I was (even those who are new to rakudo in general), will be able
to get going quickly with rakudo.

https://github.com/ugexe/zef/blob/main/README.md

Thanks,
Ken

On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 4:55 AM raf via macports-users
<macports-users at lists.macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 08:20:24PM -0800, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi;
> >
> > zef, the package manager for Rakudo, needs to be installed as part of the port
> >
> > Zef, the Rakudo package manager, really needs to be part of the Rakudo
> > port.  Just like Ruby needs the Gem, Nim needs Nimble, Perl needs
> > CPAN.
> >
> > It's not hard to build Zef manually, but I think it should be
> > automatically installed as a dependency of Rakudo.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ken Wolcott
>
> I'd be happy if I could install zef at all via macports.
> It doesn't have to be part of raku's portfile. Debian
> has separate packages for them.
>
> This issue indicates that a Portfile *for* zef is planned:
>
>   https://github.com/ugexe/zef/issues/516
>
> But it looks like it's actually trying to use zef to create
> a package for a raku module (unless I've misunderstood the log
> output there - I probably have), but zef doesn't work like that.
> And zef uses itself to install itself, so it looks like it isn't
> suitable for packaging systems.
>
> There might not be interest in changing zef for use with
> packaging systems. The questions in that issue were asked
> six months ago with no response. It might need a patch
> to hack the raku module path so that zef is tricked into
> doing what's needed.
>
> cheers,
> raf
>