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Updated: parrot-4.3.0-1, rakudo and rakudo-star-201204-1 (perl6)
- From: Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>
- To: cygwin-announce at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 14:02:56 -0500
- Subject: Updated: parrot-4.3.0-1, rakudo and rakudo-star-201204-1 (perl6)
- Reply-to: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
I updated the Cygwin distributions of parrot-4.3.0-1,
rakudo-201204.1-1 (aka perl6) and rakudo-star-201204-1
These are stable, a so-called "supported" releases.
Canonical homepages:
http://www.parrot.org/
http://www.rakudo.org/
Canonical downloads:
http://www.parrot.org/release/current
http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads
http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads
Packaging Details:
* blizkost (perl5 in perl6) is gone.
* winxed and nqp is new, parrot-nqp is an old version unfortunately
required to bootstrap.
maybe we'll add a new nqp package somewhen.
* you need at least 2GB free RAM and an initialized rebase database to rebuild
New in parrot
See http://parrot.org/news/2012/Parrot-4.3.0
- Core
+ Winxed snapshot updated to 1.7.0
+ Add type introspection to lexical variables.
+ New 'tools/release/parrot_github_release.pl' script to automate
updates to the 'parrot.github.com' and 'parrot-docsx' repositories.
+ Numerous casting and consting fixes thanks to GCC 4.8 .
- Documentation
+ Updated 'docs/projects/release_manager_guide.pod'
+ Updated 'docs/projects/release_parrot_github_guide.pod'
+ Improved function documentation.
- Tests
- Community
- Platforms
+ Fixed alignment issues on ia64, sparc and mipsel.
+ Fixed a platform-specific issue with dlclose().
rakudo release announcement:
http://rakudo.org/2012/04/26/announce-rakudo-star-2012-04-a-useful-usable-early-adopter-distribution-of-perl-6/
* much improved startup time
* much more robust module precompilation
* autovivification for arrays and hashes is implemented again
* many phasers like PRE, POST and REDO are now implemented
* improved support for calling C functions and modelling structs and arrays
via NativeCall.pm6
* now includes modules URI, LWP::Simple, jsonrpc and Bailador (a Perl 6 port
of Dancer)
This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error
reporting and better failure modes. Many more exceptions are thrown
as typed exceptions.
notable incompatible changes from the previous releases:
* the ‘lib’ directory is not included in the default module search path
anymore. You can manipulate the search path with the PERL6LIB environment
variable
--
Reini Urban
http://cpanel.net/ ? http://www.perl-compiler.org/