Re: Parrot 0.6.4

Bernhard Schmalhofer a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> on behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce the release of 
> Parrot 0.6.4
> "St. Vincent Amazon."
> 

As usual, the Windows setup is available on 
http://parrotwin32.sourceforge.net/

François.

> Parrot 0.6.4 is available via CPAN, or follow the download
> instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.html.  For those who would 
> like to develop on
> Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Subversion on
> the source code repository to get the latest and best Parrot code.
> 
> Parrot 0.6.4 News:
> - Documentation
>  + removed a lot of old information from the FAQ
>  + improved function level documentation
> - Configuration
>  + removed the configuration item 'has_gnu_m4'
>  + refactored ICU-detection
> - Languages
>  + ChitChat
>    - improved the Smalltalk implementation
>  + Pipp
>    - renamed Plumhead to Pipp
>    - support for a lot of builtin functions.
>    - Pipp now uses PHP specific data types.
>    - converted from PCT with TGE to PCT with NQP actions
>    - improvements in the PCT variant by using optok parsing
>    - start of object support
>  + pir
>    - simple assignments work
>  + json
>    - added a PCT-based implementation of JSON parsing
>  + lolcode
>    - improved handling of symbols
>    - added support for block handling
>    - added support for globals
>  + Lua
>    - more tests
>  + Rakudo
>    - updated Range implementation
>    - added enums
>    - added generic type declarations (::T)
>    - added runtime mixing of roles with 'does' and 'but'
>    - added generic type declarations
>    - fixed handling of implicit lexicals ($_, $!, and $/)
>    - fixed implicit method calls on $_
>    - improved complex math builtins, added Complex
>    - moved many builtins to class Any
>    - declaration of lists of variables now work
>    - improved test infrastructure
>    - 910 additional passing spec tests since last release
>    - more convergence with STD.pm grammar
>    - added named 0-ary parsing and ops
> - Compilers
>  + PCT:
>    - allowed subroutine and method names to be a PAST tree that produces 
> the name
>    - Improved lexical handling
> - Tools
>  + pbc_disassemble renamed from disassemble
> - Implementation
>  + allowed .macro_const in PIR
>  + added the flag :lexid(...) for subroutines
>  + made multiple dispatch work for sub types
>  + fixed garbage collection bug related to the metadata attached to a 
> PMC_EXT structure
>  + added a warning when using deprecated opcodes
>  + simplified the stacks implementation
>  + fixed C++ build
>  + improved closure and lexical support
>  + improved IMCC register allocator
>  + added cache for all runtime-constant strings, reducing memory usage
> - Miscellaneous
>  + improved OpenGL/GLU/GLUT bindings
>  + added a standard profile for Perl::Critic coding standard testing
>  + added support for smoke testing with Smolder
>  + enabled use of Test::Harness 3.0 if available, but don't require it 
> for 'make test'
>  + added the executable 'parrot_config' to query Parrot configuration
> 
> 
> Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our 
> sponsors
> for supporting this project.  Our next scheduled release is August 19th 
> 2008.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

• Parrot 0.6.4 by Bernhard Schmalhofer
• Re: Parrot 0.6.4 by François Perrad