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 ===================================================================== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Once you've downloaded setup.exe, run it and select "Editors" or "Text" and then click on the appropriate fields until the above announced version numbers appear if they are not displayed already. If your mirror doesn't yet have the latest version of this package after 24 hours, you can either continue to wait for that site to be updated or you can try to find another mirror. Please send questions or comments to the Cygwin mailing list at: [email protected] If you want to subscribe go to: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/ I would appreciate if you would use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly. This includes ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin in general. If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
