2009/7/23 Moritz Lenz <mor...@casella.faui2k3.org>: > On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce > the July 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #19 "Chicago". > Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1]. > The tarball for the July 2009 release is available from > http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads . >
As usual, binaries for Windows are available on http://parrotwin32.sourceforge.net/ , including the latest Parrot release and many other languages. > Due to the continued rapid pace of Rakudo development and the > frequent addition of new Perl 6 features and bugfixes, we continue > to recommend that people wanting to use or work with Rakudo obtain > the latest source directly from the main repository at github. > More details are available at http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo . > > Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release code named > after a Perl Mongers group. The July 2009 release is named "Chicago", > as chosen by Perl 6 contributor Kyle Hasselbacher. Kyle has been > doing a truly outstanding job of turning open tickets in the RT queues > into tests for the spectest suite. Chicago.pm has been the host for > the 2006 and 2008 YAPC::NA conferences and sponsored Perl 6 hackathons > at each conference. > > In this release of Rakudo Perl, we've focused our efforts on quality > improvements and bootstrapping. We now have operators and additional > builtin functions written in Perl 6. > > Some of the specific major changes and improvements in this release include: > > * Rakudo is now passing 11,876 spectests, an increase of 340 > passing tests since the June 2009 release. With this release > Rakudo is now passing 68% of the available spectest suite. > > * Operators can now be written in Perl 6, and this has been done for the > series operator '...', 'eqv' and the 'leg' operator. > > * The multi dispatcher has been refactored extensively, and now handles many > more edge cases correctly. > > * User defined traits now follow the specification much more closely; some > built-in traits are written in Perl 6. > > * Improved testing: Null PMC Access exceptions are never considered > "successful" by the test suite, even if the test was expecting a > (different) exception to be thrown. > > * Improved introspection: you can now get a list of roles composed into a > class, and a list of attributes. > > Since the Perl 6 specification is still in flux, some deprecated features > will be removed from Rakudo. Prominently among those are: > > * '=$handle' is deprecated in favor of '$handle.get' (one line) > and '$handle.lines' (all lines). > > * 'int $obj' is deprecated in favor of '$obj.Int'. > > The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for > making Rakudo Perl possible. If you would like to contribute, > see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help , ask on the perl6-compi...@perl.org > mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode. > > The next release of Rakudo (#20) is scheduled for August 20, 2009. > A list of the other planned release dates and codenames for 2009 is > available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file. In general, Rakudo > development releases are scheduled to occur two days after each > Parrot monthly release. Parrot releases the third Tuesday of each month. > > Have fun! > > References: > [1] Parrot, http://parrot.org/ > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev > >
