Parrot 0.4.2 GPW Released!

2006-02-22 Thread Leopold Toetsch

On behalf of the Parrot team I'm proud to announce another
1.5 monthly release of Parrot. GPW is the German Perl Workshop,
which will take place next week.

I'd like to thank all involved people as well as our
sponsors for supporting us.

What is Parrot?

Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running Perl6 and other dynamic
languages, see http://www.parrotcode.org/ for more information.

Parrot 0.4.2 changes and news

- improved PPC and x86 JIT support including JIT compilation
  of very simple PASM/PIR subroutines
- preliminary libreadline support
- better trace and debug features
- pkgconfig support
- META.yml to support proper indexing on CPAN
- new opcode: hcf (in my_ops in dynamic op library)
- new File pmc for file specific ops (is_dir, is_file, copy, rename...)
- named arguments and parameters (both :named() and = syntaxes)
- ongoing config improvements
- tons of bug fixes and other small improvements - too much to list all

After some pause you can grab it from
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/L/LT/LTOETSCH/parrot-0.4.2.tar.gz.

As parrot is still in steady development we recommend that you
just get the latest and best from SVN by following the directions at
http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html

Turn your web browser towards http://www.parrotcode.org/ for more
information about Parrot, get involved, and:

Have fun!
leo



Re: Parrot 0.4.2 GPW Released!

2006-02-22 Thread Alberto Simões

Yay! Unfortunately one day of delay. My birthday was yesterday :-P

Cheers, and good work.
Alberto

Leopold Toetsch wrote:

On behalf of the Parrot team I'm proud to announce another
1.5 monthly release of Parrot. GPW is the German Perl Workshop,
which will take place next week.

I'd like to thank all involved people as well as our
sponsors for supporting us.

What is Parrot?

Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running Perl6 and other dynamic
languages, see http://www.parrotcode.org/ for more information.

Parrot 0.4.2 changes and news

- improved PPC and x86 JIT support including JIT compilation
  of very simple PASM/PIR subroutines
- preliminary libreadline support
- better trace and debug features
- pkgconfig support
- META.yml to support proper indexing on CPAN
- new opcode: hcf (in my_ops in dynamic op library)
- new File pmc for file specific ops (is_dir, is_file, copy, rename...)
- named arguments and parameters (both :named() and = syntaxes)
- ongoing config improvements
- tons of bug fixes and other small improvements - too much to list all

After some pause you can grab it from
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/L/LT/LTOETSCH/parrot-0.4.2.tar.gz.

As parrot is still in steady development we recommend that you
just get the latest and best from SVN by following the directions at
http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html

Turn your web browser towards http://www.parrotcode.org/ for more
information about Parrot, get involved, and:

Have fun!
leo



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