Re: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6

2010-07-29 Thread Jerome Quelin
On 10/07/29 07:23 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
> announce the July 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
> distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the July 2010 release is
> available from .

congratulations, but help me help you guys.

i'm currently shipping parrot and rakudo in mandriva. what should i do
regarding rakudo-star:
  - juste update rakudo to rakudo-star
  - create a new package rakudo-star, alongside rakudo

if the former, will future monthly rakudo releases feature everything
that rakudo* is shipping? (modules, etc.)
if the latter, can rakudo-star use rakudo as its perl6 interpreter, and
only installs addons?

thanks,
jérôme 
-- 
jque...@gmail.com


Re: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6

2010-07-29 Thread Kiffin Gish
Good stuff, let's celebrate!

On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 07:23 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
> announce the July 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
> distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the July 2010 release is
> available from .
> 
> Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6.  We know that
> it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
> there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
> that aren't implemented yet.  But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
> is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
> and exploring a great new language.  These "Star" releases are
> intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
> the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
> Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.
> 
> In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
> ("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
> "Rakudo Perl".  "Rakudo Star" is a distribution that includes
> release #31 of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.6.0 of
> the Parrot Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
> and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.  We
> plan to make Rakudo Star releases on a monthly schedule, with
> occasional special releases in response to important bugfixes or
> changes.
> 
> Some of the many cool Perl 6 features that are available in this
> release of Rakudo Star:
>   * Perl 6 grammars and regexes
>   * formal parameter lists and signatures
>   * metaoperators
>   * gradual typing
>   * a powerful object model, including roles and classes
>   * lazy list evaluation
>   * multiple dispatch
>   * smart matching
>   * junctions and autothreading
>   * operator overloading (limited forms for now)
>   * introspection
>   * currying
>   * a rich library of builtin operators, functions, and types
>   * an interactive read-evaluation-print loop
>   * Unicode at the codepoint level
>   * resumable exceptions
> 
> There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
> yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
> releases.  Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a
> "Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release.  Some of the not-quite-there
> features include:
>   * nested package definitions
>   * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
>   * typed arrays
>   * macros
>   * state variables
>   * threads and concurrency
>   * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
>   * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
>   * interactive readline that understands Unicode
>   * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
>   * non-blocking I/O
>   * most of Synopsis 9
>   * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
> 
> 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.
> 
> See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
> Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
> materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
> 
> Rakudo Star also bundles a number of modules; a partial list of
> the modules provided by this release include:
>   * Blizkost
>   - enables some Perl 5 modules to be used from within Rakudo Perl 6
>   * MiniDBI
>   - a simple database interface for Rakudo Perl 6
>   * Zavolaj
>   - call C library functions from Rakudo Perl 6
>   * SVG and SVG::Plot
>   - create scalable vector graphics
>   * HTTP::Daemon
>   - a simple HTTP server
>   * XML::Writer
>   - generate XML
>   * YAML
>   - dump Perl 6 objects as YAML
>   * Term::ANSIColor
>   - color screen output using ANSI escape sequences
>   * Test::Mock
>   - create mock objects and check what methods were called
>   * Math::Model
>   - describe and run mathematical models
>   * Config::INI
>   - parse and write configuration files
>   * File::Find
>   - find files in a given directory
>   * LWP::Simple
>   - fetch resources from the web
> 
> These are not considered "core Perl 6 modules", and as module
> development for Perl 6 continues to mature, future releases
> of Rakudo Star will likely come bundled with a different set
> of modules. Deprecation policies for bundled modules will be
> created over time, and other Perl 6 distributions may choose
> different sets of modules or policies.  More information about
> Perl 6 modules can be found at http://modules.perl6.org/.
> 
> Rakudo Star also contains a draft of a Perl 6 book -- see 
>  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 

Re: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6

2010-07-29 Thread Gabor Szabo
Congratulations and thank you!



I have started to collect the links to the press coverage of the release:

http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?rakudo_star_press

Please help me collect all the important links!

Gabor


Re: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6

2010-07-29 Thread Xiao Yafeng
Congratulations!

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Patrick R. Michaud  wrote:
> On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
> announce the July 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
> distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the July 2010 release is
> available from .
>
> Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6.  We know that
> it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
> there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
> that aren't implemented yet.  But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
> is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
> and exploring a great new language.  These "Star" releases are
> intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
> the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
> Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.
>
> In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language
> ("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
> "Rakudo Perl".  "Rakudo Star" is a distribution that includes
> release #31 of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.6.0 of
> the Parrot Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
> and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.  We
> plan to make Rakudo Star releases on a monthly schedule, with
> occasional special releases in response to important bugfixes or
> changes.
>
> Some of the many cool Perl 6 features that are available in this
> release of Rakudo Star:
>  * Perl 6 grammars and regexes
>  * formal parameter lists and signatures
>  * metaoperators
>  * gradual typing
>  * a powerful object model, including roles and classes
>  * lazy list evaluation
>  * multiple dispatch
>  * smart matching
>  * junctions and autothreading
>  * operator overloading (limited forms for now)
>  * introspection
>  * currying
>  * a rich library of builtin operators, functions, and types
>  * an interactive read-evaluation-print loop
>  * Unicode at the codepoint level
>  * resumable exceptions
>
> There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
> yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
> releases.  Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a
> "Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release.  Some of the not-quite-there
> features include:
>  * nested package definitions
>  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
>  * typed arrays
>  * macros
>  * state variables
>  * threads and concurrency
>  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
>  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
>  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
>  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
>  * non-blocking I/O
>  * most of Synopsis 9
>  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
>
> 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.
>
> See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about
> Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
> materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
>
> Rakudo Star also bundles a number of modules; a partial list of
> the modules provided by this release include:
>  * Blizkost
>      - enables some Perl 5 modules to be used from within Rakudo Perl 6
>  * MiniDBI
>      - a simple database interface for Rakudo Perl 6
>  * Zavolaj
>      - call C library functions from Rakudo Perl 6
>  * SVG and SVG::Plot
>      - create scalable vector graphics
>  * HTTP::Daemon
>      - a simple HTTP server
>  * XML::Writer
>      - generate XML
>  * YAML
>      - dump Perl 6 objects as YAML
>  * Term::ANSIColor
>      - color screen output using ANSI escape sequences
>  * Test::Mock
>      - create mock objects and check what methods were called
>  * Math::Model
>      - describe and run mathematical models
>  * Config::INI
>      - parse and write configuration files
>  * File::Find
>      - find files in a given directory
>  * LWP::Simple
>      - fetch resources from the web
>
> These are not considered "core Perl 6 modules", and as module
> development for Perl 6 continues to mature, future releases
> of Rakudo Star will likely come bundled with a different set
> of modules. Deprecation policies for bundled modules will be
> created over time, and other Perl 6 distributions may choose
> different sets of modules or policies.  More information about
> Perl 6 modules can be found at http://modules.perl6.org/.
>
> Rakudo Star also contains a draft of a Perl 6 book -- see
>  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 , ask on the perl6-compi...@perl.org
> mailing list, or join us on IRC #