[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: parrot-0.8.2-1 with parrot-perl6 and parrot-languages

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: parrot-0.8.2-1 with parrot-perl6 and parrot-languages

[Reini Urban]

The parrot packages with libparrot0 and libparrot-devel,
plus parrot-perl6 and parrot-languages are updated to 0.8.2-1 for
the Cygwin distribution.

This is from branches/pdd30install_stage3 branch.
Issues: lua is now broken.

Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and
execute bytecode for interpreted languages.
Parrot is a target for the upcoming Perl 6 and a lot of other
languages.

Canonical homepage:
   http://www.parrotvm.org/ [new]
   The Parrot wiki is at https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/ [new]

Canonical download:
   http://www.parrot.org/release/current

Parrot 0.8.2 News:
- Implementation
   + fixed lexical semantics
   + added the 'capture_lex' opcode
   + added automatic resume for nonfatal exceptions
   + added multidispatch cache
   + applied miscellaneous performance improvements, including startup time
   + fixed several bugs and leaks found by Coverity Scan
   + removed race conditions from parallel testing
- Compilers
   + IMCC
     - removed undocumented .param int  =>  syntax
     - .line directive now only takes an integer argument
     - new .file directive to specify the file name being compiled
   + PCT
     - properly handles lexical generation and closure semantics
     - uses :subid instead of name lookups to reference PAST::Block nodes
     - added PAST::Control node type (exception handlers)
   + PGE
     - add support for  and  assertions
     - Match objects use Capture PMC instead of Capture_PIR
   + PIRC
     - add macro handling to PASM mode
     - disable vanilla register allocation in PASM mode, but do allow 
optimization
     - add tests and bug fixes
     - first bits of bytecode generation. No sub calling/returning yet.
- Languages
   + Rakudo
     - fixed lexical handling and recursion
     - refactored subtypes implementation
     - support for quotes with multi-character delimiters
     - implemented list slices (Positional role)
     - list assignment
     - reduction meta operators
     - hyper meta operators
     - cross meta operators
     - more builtin functions
     - added Nil type
     - basic support for protos
     - iterator on filehandle objects
     - basic support for exception handlers
     - warn
   + Lua
     - added complex & mathx libraries
     - merged LuaClosure & LuaFunction PMC
   + Pipp
     - added support for a return value from user defined functions
     - added incomplete implemention of 'require_once'
   + Ecmascript
     - parser fixes, parses spidermonkey's top level test/shell.js
- Deprecations
   + PARROT_API is now PARROT_EXPORT
   + PIR
     - :lexid is now :subid
     - .arg is now .set_arg
     - .result is now .get_result
     - .yield (in .begin/end_yield) is now .set_yield
     - .return (in .begin/end_return) is now .set_return
     - .namespace x / .endnamespace x syntax is removed
   + Capture_PIR (runtime/parrot/library/Parrot/Capture_PIR.pir)

See also http://www.parrot.org/news/2008/Parrot-0.8.1
http://www.parrot.org/news/vision-for-1_0 and
https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/ParrotRoadmap

Thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our 
sponsors for supporting this project. Our next release is 20 January 
2009, where all the cygwin patches will be merged into trunk. Until then 
cygwin is still the only parrot release which works without the source tree.

Packaging Details:
----- version parrot-0.8.2-1 -----
* merged from branches/pdd30install_stage3
* perl6 copied manually from installable_perl6

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: parrot-0.8.2-1 with parrot-perl6 and parrot-languages

[Charles Wilson]

Reini Urban wrote:

> Thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our
> sponsors for supporting this project. Our next release is 20 January
> 2009, where all the cygwin patches will be merged into trunk. Until then
> cygwin is still the only parrot release which works without the source
> tree.

Wow. Just...wow! Cygwin -- as a development platform -- supports parrot
features that no other platform supports! (Sure, they are
build/infrastructure features and not end-user-visible ones, but still...)

Let's hear it for Reini and the other cygwin/parrot contributors!

--
Chuck

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: parrot-0.8.2-1 with parrot-perl6 and parrot-languages

[Reini Urban]

Charles Wilson schrieb:
> Reini Urban wrote:
> 
>> Thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our
>> sponsors for supporting this project. Our next release is 20 January
>> 2009, where all the cygwin patches will be merged into trunk. Until then
>> cygwin is still the only parrot release which works without the source
>> tree.
> 
> Wow. Just...wow! Cygwin -- as a development platform -- supports parrot
> features that no other platform supports! (Sure, they are
> build/infrastructure features and not end-user-visible ones, but still...)
> 
> Let's hear it for Reini and the other cygwin/parrot contributors!

Unfortunately my big 405kb src patch still didn't make it the next 
release on January 20, only parts of it.

But then at least other packagers get a little bit of more core support 
of being installable.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://phpwiki.org/  http://murbreak.at/

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