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Parrot 5.4.0 "Austin Parrot" Released!

Bruce Gray — 2013-05-22T04:16:43

    Jimi Hendrix, deceased, drugs.
    Janis Joplin, deceased, alcohol.
    Mama Cass, deceased, ham sandwich.
        -- Austin Powers (making a list of friends from the Summer of Love)

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.4.0, also known
as "Austin Parrot".  Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed
at running all dynamic languages, and currently focusing on Perl 6.

Parrot 5.4.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site
(ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/5.4.0/), or by following the
download instructions at http://parrot.org/download.  For those who would like
to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to
retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code.

Parrot 5.4.0 News:
    - Core
        + Implemented the coth() and acot() math functions.
        + Fixed chomp to only trim a newline when it ends the string. [GH #958]
        + Added readlink() and Parrot_file_readlink(), with tests. [GH #967]
    - Build

Fwd: NCI questions

Saurabh Kumar — 2013-05-18T18:57:54

Cc'ing the parrot-dev list,

Saurabh Kumar writes:

Notes from a recent LLVM meeting

Jonathan "Duke" Leto — 2013-05-15T21:56:03

Howdy,

Fascinating stuff in here:

http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-04/

Duke

YAPC::NA 2013 planning

Jonathan "Duke" Leto — 2013-05-15T02:34:32

Howdy,

I just bought a plane ticket! I will be there for the first day of the
hackathons on June 1st [0].

See you there!

Duke

[0] http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/schedule

PS: I don't have any lodging booked yet, please contact me off list if
you are interested in sharing a room.

Re: Interesting GC article

Jonathan "Duke" Leto — 2013-05-15T00:42:59

Howdy,

None the less, it is a useful article for the 98% of the rest of
Parrot devs and users that are mere mortals :)

Duke

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Reini Urban <rurban< at >x-ray.at> wrote:

Re: Interesting GC article

Reini Urban — 2013-05-14T18:02:21

It's only about super-simple mark&sweep with generations (aka stop the
world, non-compacting), but certainly not about "modern" GC techniques
(also from the 70ies, but still not implemented in "mainstream"
languages, only in better languages), like cheney loops, tri-color
non-stop-the world sweeps, incremental and thread safe gc's, real-time
GC's, or compacting GC's.


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:41 AM, Vasily Chekalkin <bacek< at >bacek.com> wrote:

Re: Interesting GC article

Vasily Chekalkin — 2013-05-10T06:41:23

It's just high level overview of 30+ years old technologies.
On 10 May 2013 16:21, "Jonathan "Duke" Leto" <jonathan< at >leto.net> wrote:

Interesting GC article

Jonathan "Duke" Leto — 2013-05-10T06:21:24

Howdy,

This "Modern Garbage Collectors under the Hood" [0] article looks very
interesting, especially for those wanting to understand how our
generational GC works from a high level perspective with pictures and
graphs instead of reading GC internals :)

Duke

[0] http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/general-programming/modern-garbage-collectors-under-the-hood-r2995



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Re: GSoC madness

Reini Urban — 2013-04-26T21:36:26

I can help out

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Jonathan "Duke" Leto <jonathan< at >leto.net> wrote:

Re: GSoC libgit2 bindings

Saurabh Kumar — 2013-04-26T16:54:45

Jonathan Duke Leto writes:


I've already discussed some of these things on IRC(my nick is sa1).
Since then I have read a little documentation on winxed, NCI and libgit2
and while it has not been enough I managed to write a first draft of a
proposal[1], which mostly consists of the schedule at the moment.

It's currently a little naive and lacking details and I'm not sure if
I've spread out my work as I should. I will continue changing the scope
and adding details in further iterations.

I've spent the last day focusing on winxed and NCI and not so much on
libgit2. I only have vague doubts(and a vague understanding of PIR) for
the moment. Would additional work be required for writing OO interfaces in
Perl6? Since PMC would would already be present, it seems to me that it
should be trivial.

In addition to general feedback about my proposal, I would also like
some specific feedback on what you think is the heaviest part of my
work, and how much time it would take in contrast to what I have already
alloted to

Re: GSoC libgit2 bindings

Jonathan "Duke" Leto — 2013-04-24T22:36:48

Howdy Saurabh,

I am cc'ing parrot-dev, because many other people will help me be your
mentor. Also, I am going on vacation next week :)

Thanks for your interest in being a GSoC student! Are you in the #parrot
IRC channel yet?

Can you please report the problem you get with Rosella on Github?

https://github.com/Whiteknight/Rosella

Make sure to report the operating system details, compiler versions, Parrot
version (and SHA1 if using git) and version of Rosella that the problem
occured with. Feel free to put the full (possibly large) output in a Github
gist and mention it in the Github Issue that you create.

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Saurabh Kumar <saurabhgeek92< at >gmail.com>wrote:


Good question! We can make this this as easy or hard as we need, to make it
doable in the timeframe we have and interesting to you.

Only do the following things:

0) report the Rosella bug
1) build parrot-libgit2 as far as you can, until you hit the problem with
Rosella. You should still be able to install and use parrot-

GSoC madness

Jonathan "Duke" Leto — 2013-04-23T23:25:55

Howdy,

I see that various GSoC students are looking for me on IRC.

Please tell them to email me at duke< at >leto.net. I read IRC logs, but I won't
be on very often.

Duke

PS: I will be vacationing from April 29-May 6 and will be incommunicado. I
could really use somebody's help with GSoC stuff during that period.

Re: Interesting blog post about the "speed of light" for general purpose languages

Reini Urban — 2013-04-19T21:35:53

He is obviously pretty clueless about modern fast and expressive
dynamic+static languages,
frightened by type systems, but predicts the rise of DSLs.
He completely forgets about threads/fibers and non-blocking async IO.
No major advances? Come on.


Nothing. If parrot would fit into the category of a backend to a
modern fast and expressive
dynamic or static language maybe. I'm thinking of other languages
which would fit here.
No, not Python, Perl, Scala or Haskell :)
More like io, cola (idst), felix, haxe, lua/neko, potion, go, dart, f#, ...
Some of them are faster than the speed of light (C) already, and
easier to work with.
--
Reini Urban
http://cpanel.net/   http://www.perl-compiler.org/

Re: The yearly Parrot Pulse

Reini Urban — 2013-04-19T21:23:54

Nice,
I am the leader :)
--
Reini Urban
http://cpanel.net/   http://www.perl-compiler.org/

Interesting blog post about the "speed of light" for general purpose languages

Jonathan "Duke" Leto — 2013-04-19T19:37:51

Howdy,

http://tratt.net/laurie/tech_articles/articles/programming_languages_and_the_speed_of_light

Any thoughts about how this relates to the future of Parrot?

Duke

The yearly Parrot Pulse

Jonathan "Duke" Leto — 2013-04-19T02:47:57

Howdy,

Github just added a "pulse" feature, which shows what is going on in a repo:

https://github.com/parrot/parrot/pulse/yearly

The /yearly URL is hidden, but very interesting :)

Duke

Parrot Foundation Members, voting

Allison Randal — 2013-04-18T20:17:50

I've just sent a motion for vote to the current email addresses we have
on file for the Parrot Foundation membership. If you haven't received an
invitation to vote, and think you should have, please contact me and let
me know where to send the invitation.

Thanks,
Allison

Parrot 5.3.0 "W00tstock Parrot" Released!

Bruce Gray — 2013-04-17T04:39:12

We are stardust.
Billion year old carbon.
We are golden.
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
(To some semblance of a garden.)
   -- "Woodstock", by Joni Mitchell

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.3.0, also known
as "W00tstock Parrot".  Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed
at running all dynamic languages, and currently focusing on Perl 6.

Parrot 5.3.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site
(ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/5.3.0/), or by following the
download instructions at http://parrot.org/download.  For those who would like
to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to
retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code.

Parrot 5.3.0 News:
   - Build
       + Files generated by `make cover` are now correctly cleaned by `make`
         and ignored by `git`.
   - Tests
       + Internal testing of the Configure probe for Fink now works correctly
         with t

Util++ is our 5.3.0 release manager

Jonathan "Duke" Leto — 2013-04-16T19:53:11

Howdy,

Nobody signed up to release 5.3.0 today! Ooops.

Everyone shower Util++ with karma for being a JIT release manager.

Duke

PS: Please sign up to release a future Parrot!

https://github.com/parrot/parrot/blob/master/docs/project/release_manager_guide.pod

No experience required, only stamina ;)

[OT] Pledge for a Github user to join Gittip

Jonathan "Duke" Leto — 2013-04-04T00:46:12

Howdy,

Ok, last OT message for the day. I just figured out how to pledge for a
Github user to join Gittip.

If you want to donate to cotto++ being Lead Dev, please go here:

https://www.gittip.com/on/github/cotto/

Replace the username above to pledge any other Github username. Spread the
love!

Duke

[OT] Funding Parrot Development with Gittip

Jonathan "Duke" Leto — 2013-04-04T00:10:35

Howdy,

I finally connected a credit card to my Gittip [0] account and started
donating to some people that I know make the world a better place, with
their code or actions. Or both.

Gittip is a way to anonymously tip people on a recurring basis.

If you are a Parrot dev that is contributing to core or the Parrot
ecosystem, I will donate to you. Just create a free account and tell me.

If you would like to support my work in applying Parrot Foundation to the
SFC, managing GSoC, merging pull requests, trying to setup Smolder on
SuperCell, my random commits to core or my new plans to revive PL/Parrot
and PL/Rakudo, then I would greatly appreciate a Gittip :)

Duke

[0] https://www.gittip.com/dukeleto/