New NQP repository, new “nom” Rakudo branch

[Patrick R. Michaud]

As mentioned in the last week’s NQP Roadmap, we’ve now broken out 
the new 6model-based NQP into its own repository on GitHub: 
http://github.com/perl6/nqp . We know there may be a bit of 
confusion between the two versions; just remember that “nqp-rx” 
always refers to the older one and “nqp” without the -rx refers 
to the new one.  

Today Jonathan also created the “nom” branch in the Rakudo repository 
where we’ll be converting Rakudo over to using the new NQP. We expect 
this process to take several weeks. Rakudo compiler releases will 
continue to be made from the existing “master” branch until the new 
branch is ready.

Our hope and expectation is that the April 2011 Rakudo Star release 
will be using the new 6model implementation. Stay tuned!

Pm