Re: release?

2015-12-28 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
My understanding is that the happy and long-awaited release announcement was done on Christmas out of tradition of announcing Perl releases on Christmas, that it means that the specification of the language is now declared as (fairly) stable, but the implementation is a different matter. In

Re: release?

2015-12-28 Thread Timo Paulssen
On 12/28/2015 01:58 PM, Brock Wilcox wrote: > > Rakudo, as far as I know, passes all of the 6.c tests :). But that > might mean that we need more tests! > Actually, there's a whole bunch of tests declared "TODO" or skipped. But rakudo does pass a vast number of the existing tests.

Re: release?

2015-12-28 Thread Brock Wilcox
Rakudo, as far as I know, passes all of the 6.c tests :). But that might mean that we need more tests! On Dec 28, 2015 04:37, "Amir E. Aharoni" wrote: > My understanding is that the happy and long-awaited release announcement > was done on Christmas out of tradition of

Re: release?

2015-12-28 Thread Will Coleda
There isn't a 6.0.0 as such. Perl 6's language specification, versioned 6.c (aka Christmas) was released; at the same time, the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, version 2015.12 was released, which is the most up to date implementation of this specification. The specification is intended to have only