I didn't do my research @gizzlon - I assumed it was backwards compatible!
Perhaps you can help - a quick Google suggests that a reasonable Perl 6 file extension is .p6 - is that standard in the Perl world?
dexec chooses a Docker image based on file extension. I'm planning to allow this to be overridden anyway, but it would be great if there is an easy way to distinguish between Perl 5 and 6 source files.
perl6 will definitely not backwards compatible. AFAICT, if any extension is used, it will probably still be '.pl'. the hash bang line (at least in unix land) determines the specific interpreter to use. Besides that, perl6 is not quite production ready (although this it is supposed to be christmas this year). Perl6 doesn't even have one specific implementation, although it sounds like the first production ready version will be rakudo on top of the MoarVM.
Perl5 would be a much saner default. I would worry about supporting some version of perl6 at a later time.
@gizzlon @senorsmile perl 5 is now the default in the latest 1.0.1 release. perl6 is available too, either by using .p6 extension or specifying an override image with: dexec foo.pl --specify-image dexec/perl6
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 47.0 ms ] threadIt is literally every language I ever tried, and then some, this certainly lowers the bar for me to try some more.
If you're interested each of the Docker Exec image repositories contains examples e.g.
https://github.com/docker-exec/haskell/tree/v1.0.0/test https://github.com/docker-exec/d/tree/v1.0.0/test https://github.com/docker-exec/racket/tree/v1.0.0/test etc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Infrastructure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface
https://github.com/docker-exec/base-mono/blob/v1.0.0/Dockerf...
as can be seen from their respective Dockerfiles:
https://github.com/docker-exec/csharp/blob/v1.0.0/Dockerfile https://github.com/docker-exec/fsharp/blob/v1.0.0/Dockerfile
The actual execution invokes this script which calls mcs or fsharpc to compile, and then executes using the Mono runtime:
https://github.com/docker-exec/image-common/blob/v1.0.0/dexe...
The Perl one seems to be perl6, not perl5: https://github.com/docker-exec/perl/blob/master/Dockerfile
Maybe you should rename it to Perl6? Perl 5 is still the standard in the Perl world..
Perhaps you can help - a quick Google suggests that a reasonable Perl 6 file extension is .p6 - is that standard in the Perl world?
dexec chooses a Docker image based on file extension. I'm planning to allow this to be overridden anyway, but it would be great if there is an easy way to distinguish between Perl 5 and 6 source files.
Perl5 would be a much saner default. I would worry about supporting some version of perl6 at a later time.
btw, cool tool!