> On 25 Jul 2017, at 05:57, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote: > On 07/24/2017 11:40 AM, Steve Mynott wrote: >> A useful and usable production distribution of Perl 6 >> On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm pleased to >> announce the July 2017 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable >> production distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the July 2017 >> release is available from https://rakudo.perl6.org/downloads/star/. >> Binaries for macOS and Windows (64 bit) are also available. >> This is the eighth post-Christmas (production) release of Rakudo Star >> and implements Perl v6.c. It comes with support for the MoarVM backend >> (all module tests pass on supported platforms). >> IMPORTANT: "panda" is to be removed very shortly since it is >> deprecated. Please use "zef" instead. >> Currently, Star is on a quarterly release cycle and 2017.10 (October) >> will follow later this year. >> Please note that this release of Rakudo Star is not fully functional >> with the JVM backend from the Rakudo compiler. Please use the MoarVM >> backend only. >> In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language ("Perl >> 6") and specific implementations of the language such as "Rakudo >> Perl". >> This Star release includes release 2017.07 of the Rakudo Perl 6 >> compiler, version 2017.07 MoarVM, plus various modules, documentation, >> and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. >> Note this Star release contains NQP version 2017.07-9-gc0abee7 rather >> than the release NQP 2017.07 in order to fix the --ll-exception >> command line flag. >> The Rakudo compiler changes since the last Rakudo Star release of >> 2017.01 are now listed in "2017.05.md", "2017.06.md" and "2017.07.md" >> under the "rakudo/docs/announce" directory of the source distribution. >> Notable changes in modules shipped with Rakudo Star: >> + DBIish: Doc and CI updates >> + doc: Too many to list. p6doc fixed. >> + grammar-debugger: Works again now. >> + p6-io-string: New dep for doc. >> + p6-native-resources: Removed since deprecated and not used by linenoise. >> + panda: Officially deprecate panda in favour of zef. >> + perl6-Test-When: New dep for perl6-pod-to-bigpage. >> + perl6-lwp-simple: Fix breakage due to rakudo encoding refactor. >> + tap-harness6: Replaces deprecated tap-harness6-prove6. >> + zef: Too many to list. >> There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not yet >> handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming releases. >> Some of the not-quite-there features include: >> + advanced macros >> + non-blocking I/O (in progress) >> + some bits of Synopsis 9 and 11 >> There is an online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features >> that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo's >> backends and other Perl 6 implementations. >> In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the >> programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are many >> that we've missed. Bug reports about missing and broken features are >> welcomed at rakudo...@perl.org. >> See https://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about Perl >> 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, presentations, >> reference materials, design documents, and other supporting resources. >> Some Perl 6 tutorials are available under the "docs" directory in the >> release tarball. >> The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for >> making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see >> http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the perl6-compi...@perl.org >> mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. > > > Any idea when the full Rakudo will be released?
What do you mean by “the full Rakudo” ? Rakudo Star is the Rakudo compiler release with a set of useful modules added (“batteries included”). So you could argue that Rakudo doesn’t get fuller than with Rakudo Star!
