http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/395 <pre>Howdy, We have accepted 3 GSoC student proposals! Javascript backend for Rakudo Perl 6 [0] by Paweł Murias (Poland) Updating parrot-libgit2 to latest libgit2 release [1] by Saurabh Kumar (India) Improve App::Parrot::Create [2] by Denis Boyun (Ukraine) The community bonding period starts now. Please welcome our students and give them constructive criticism about their proposals. They are extremely intelligent students, but they do not have the years of real world experience that many potential mentors posses. If you are interested in helping mentor any of these projects (which could be anything from answering a question on IRC occasionally to being a dedicated mentor meeting with the student on a daily or weekly basis), please become a mentor via Melange [3]. The above projects could use help from people that know about Perl 5, Perl 6, Parrot, libgit2, C, the unix command-line, nasal demons and the various portability Elder Gods that must be appeased to Make Things Work. Students can always use more en</pre> Jonathan "Duke" Leto 2013-05-28T19:44:29 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/394 <pre> 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 </pre> Bruce Gray 2013-05-22T04:16:43 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/393 <pre>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</pre> Bruce Gray 2013-04-17T04:39:12 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/392 <pre>I am not dead yet I can dance and I can sing I am not dead yet I can do the Highland Fling I am not dead yet No need to go to bed No need to call the doctor Cause I'm not yet dead -- Spamalot On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.2.0, also known as "Stuffed Parrot". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 5.2.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/5.2.0/), 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 5.2.0 News: - Core + IO now only syncs buffers for the IO types where syncing makes sense. = PIO_VF_SYNC_IO flag added - Build </pre> Bruce Gray 2013-03-24T05:04:44 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/391 <pre>Flat on the bunk again, he ran for his life. The Parrot stalked him through the grey hours of morning, smoothing its fractal feathers, shuffling itself slowly into clarity as though at the end of a flashy film-dissolve, until at last his mind's eye had to acknowledge a shape, a shape, a wink </pre> Bruce Gray 2013-02-20T06:19:44 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/390 <pre>On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 4.11.0, also known as "All together - Happy Birthday Lovebird". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 4.11.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/4.11.0/), 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. Threads are considered experimental. There are a known GC bugs when running large threads on darwin and sometimes linux. There are no known problems when running large single-threaded programs. Reading from shared variables is transparent, writing must be done via scheduled updater subs on the owner thread. You can use the API without using native OS threads by configuring --without-threads. Parrot 4.11.0 News: - Core + Parrot now supports fast</pre> Reini Urban 2012-12-18T22:35:59 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/389 <pre> Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v24 This is release number 24 of Niecza Perl 6, marking 24 months since the first public release. How time flies. You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with Mono or Microsoft .NET. If you wish to follow latest developments, you can obtain the source from [2]; however, you still need a binary for bootstrapping. Niecza is a Perl 6 compiler project studying questions about the efficient implementability of Perl 6 features. It currently targets the Common Language Runtime; both Mono and Microsoft .NET are known to work. On Windows, Cygwin is required for source builds only; see the README for details. List of changes [Bug fixes] .classify and .categorize now return hashes. (Solomon Foster) qx// is now sandboxed. (Solomon Foster) [Features] Added special functions gamma, expm1, log1p, erf, lgamma. (Solomon Foster, using library code by John D. Cook) Export $*CUSTOM-L</pre> Stefan O'Rear 2012-11-26T19:54:17 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/388 <pre>On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 4.10.0, also known as "Red-eared Parakeet". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 4.10.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/4.10.0/), 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 4.10.0 News: - Core + Add PMCNULL check to result_info op + Fixed record separator bug on io handles - Build + Add -fpermissive so that nqp builds under gcc 4.7.2 + Fixed warnings for old ICU 4.4 - Platforms + More VMS fixes, but not yet done - Branches + The threads branch is ready to be merged, but nqp needs some changes, so it will be merged with 4.11.0. - Examples + Parrot mini-w</pre> Reini Urban 2012-11-21T22:30:57 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/387 <pre> Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v22 This is the twenty-second release of Niecza Perl 6, scheduled on the last Monday of the month. You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with Mono or Microsoft .NET. If you wish to follow latest developments, you can obtain the source from [2]; however, you still need a binary for bootstrapping. Niecza is a Perl 6 compiler project studying questions about the efficient implementability of Perl 6 features. It currently targets the Common Language Runtime; both Mono and Microsoft .NET are known to work. On Windows, Cygwin is required for source builds only; see the README for details. List of changes [Bug fixes] Range.roll and Range.pick now properly handle ranges which are finer than the resolution of Num. (Solomon Foster) [New features] Added sub hypot. (Solomon Foster) Added expmod (modular exponentiation) and is-prime for Int types. (Solomon Foster, Larry Wall) </pre> Stefan O'Rear 2012-09-25T06:52:32 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/386 <pre>On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 4.8.0, also known as "Spix's Macaw". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 4.8.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/4.8.0/), 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 4.8.0 News: - Core + Prevent interpreter from dying twice + Complete rewrite of the IO system, including new unified IO PMC semantics. + The Integer and Float PMCs now have a get_pointer vtable which is needed when using NCI to bind to Fortran libraries such as LAPACK - Deprecations + Moved dynpmc/os to pmc os. loadlib 'os' is not needed anymore. - Platforms + Fixed for the FileHandle open method the append mode </pre> Alvis Yardley 2012-09-19T13:01:47 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/385 <pre>On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 4.8.0, also known as "Spix's Macaw". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 4.8.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/4.8.0/), 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 4.8.0 News: - Core + Prevent interpreter from dying twice + Complete rewrite of the IO system, including new unified IO PMC semantics. + The Integer and Float PMCs now have a get_pointer vtable which is needed when using NCI to bind to Fortran libraries such as LAPACK - Deprecations + Moved dynpmc/os to pmc os. loadlib 'os' is not needed anymore. - Platforms + Fixed for the FileHandle open method the append mode </pre> Alvis Yardley 2012-09-19T05:46:40 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/384 <pre> Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v21 This is the twenty-first release of Niecza Perl 6, scheduled on the last Monday of the month. You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with Mono or Microsoft .NET. If you wish to follow latest developments, you can obtain the source from [2]; however, you still need a binary for bootstrapping. Niecza is a Perl 6 compiler project studying questions about the efficient implementability of Perl 6 features. It currently targets the Common Language Runtime; both Mono and Microsoft .NET are known to work. On Windows, Cygwin is required for source builds only; see the README for details. List of changes [Breaking changes] Conjectural [$foo] syntax has been removed. (Solomon Foster) Niecza now stores precompiled modules in a per-user directory (Local Application Data\NieczaModuleCache or $HOME/.local/share/ NieczaModuleCache) instead of obj/ by default, as a first step towards i</pre> Stefan O'Rear 2012-08-28T05:46:59 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/383 <pre>On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 4.7.0, also known as "Hispaniolan". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 4.7.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/4.7.0/), 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 4.7.0 News: - Core + Added .all_tags() and .all_tagged_pmcs() methods to PackfileView PMC + Several build and coding standards fixes The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: 4360ac3dffafffaa00bce561c1329df8ad134019f76930cf24e7a875a4422a90 parrot-4.7.0.tar.bz2 c0bffd371dea653b9881ab2cc9ae5a57dc9f531dfcda0a604ea693c9d2165619 parrot-4.7.0.tar.gz Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supportin</pre> Andrew Whitworth 2012-08-22T23:23:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/382 <pre> Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v20 This is the twentieth release of Niecza Perl 6, where I pretend I'm on the UTC-36 timezone and thank Solomon Foster for the first release where he did all the real work. non-bootstrap has run into a dead end; I need to regroup and decide the next direction. You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with Mono or Microsoft .NET. If you wish to follow latest developments, you can obtain the source from [2]; however, you still need a binary for bootstrapping. Niecza is a Perl 6 compiler project studying questions about the efficient implementability of Perl 6 features. It currently targets the Common Language Runtime; both Mono and Microsoft .NET are known to work. On Windows, Cygwin is required for source builds only; see the README for details. List of changes All of the changes below are due to Solomon Faster. [Breaking changes] Cool.bytes (with no encoding specified) </pre> Stefan O'Rear 2012-08-01T08:06:34 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/381 <pre>Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424565/ "The first half of the documentary film focuses on Mark Bittner's relationship with the Parrots living on the Telegraph Hill in the center of San Francisco and how he came to be their caretakers. He has a name for each one and gives the audience stories of how he's interacted with them. Included in these reminiscences, is general background information on bird life in San Francisco and the various theories on how these South American parrots came to exist in the Bay Area. The second half of Parrots deals with the fate of the birds now that Mark has to vacate his small home for the last three years. Apparently, his care of the birds has attracted world wide attention, especially in Europe. There is never really any tension in the fate of Mark or the parrots since, as Mark points out, the birds are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves. The viewer probably has a little less confidence in Mark though, a</pre> Reini Urban 2012-07-17T16:16:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/380 <pre>On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the June 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the June 2012 release is available from &lt;http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads&gt;. In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language ("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as "Rakudo Perl". This Star release includes release 2012.06 [0] of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.5 of the Parrot Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. Here are some of the major improvements in this release over the previous distribution release. * Transitive longest-token matching in protoregexes * Longest token matching for alternations * Enhanced list and .map handling, including laziness fixes and performance improvements * Can use an argument list with require * Compile time errors in loaded modules now show a module loading bac</pre> Moritz Lenz 2012-06-30T20:34:13 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/379 <pre> Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v19 This is the nineteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. Most of the activity this month has been on the non-bootstrap branch (see below). It has now been two years since the first commit to the Niecza repository. Hard to beleive. You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with Mono or Microsoft .NET. If you wish to follow latest developments, you can obtain the source from [2]; however, you still need a binary for bootstrapping. Niecza is a Perl 6 compiler project studying questions about the efficient implementability of Perl 6 features. It currently targets the Common Language Runtime; both Mono and Microsoft .NET are known to work. On Windows, Cygwin is required for source builds only; see the README for details. List of changes [Breaking changes] &amp;spew has been renamed &amp;spurt now that a name for it exists in spec. [Min</pre> Stefan O'Rear 2012-06-26T06:49:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/378 <pre> In honor of M0: "The tiny bird, which is not much bigger than an adult person's thumb, is smaller than some of the insects with which it shares the forest. On average, buff-faced pygmy parrots (Micropsitta pusio) stand less than 9cm tall and weigh 11.5g (0.41oz)" --BBC Earth News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8236000/8236410.stm) On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 4.5.0, also known as "Buff-faced Pygmy Parrot". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 4.5.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/4.5.0/), 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 4.5.0 News: - Core + Added .write_bytes and .read_bytes methods to FileHandle and So</pre> Alvis Yardley 2012-06-19T21:50:51 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/377 <pre> Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v18 This is the eighteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on the last Monday of the month. You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with Mono or Microsoft .NET. If you wish to follow latest developments, you can obtain the source from [2]; however, you still need a binary for bootstrapping. Niecza is a Perl 6 compiler project studying questions about the efficient implementability of Perl 6 features. It currently targets the Common Language Runtime; both Mono and Microsoft .NET are known to work. On Windows, Cygwin is required for source builds only; see the README for details. List of changes [Breaking changes] substr now returns a read-only value in accordance with specification changes. To modify the substr return value, use substr-rw (new in this release). Default new() methods, when passed arguments to initialize &lt; at &gt;.attributes, now treat the argument as a wh</pre> Stefan O'Rear 2012-05-29T03:24:52 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/376 <pre>Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6 On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the May 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the May 2012 release is available from &lt;http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads&gt;. In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language ("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as "Rakudo Perl". This Star release includes release 2012.05 [0] of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.4 of the Parrot Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. Here are some of the major improvements in this release over the previous distribution release. * -I and -M command-line options * support for non-Int enums * 'use' now accepts positional arguments and is able to import by tag name * 'import' now works * basic support for Version literals * %*ENV now propagates i</pre> Moritz Lenz 2012-05-23T06:25:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce/375 <pre> Its existence guarantees nothing in itself, and the catalytic or Promethean moment only occurs when one individual is prepared to cease being the passive listener to such a voice and to become instead is spokesman, or representative. But it's important to remember the many dreary years when the prospect of victory appeared quite unattainable. On every day of those years, the "as if" pose had to be kept up, until its cumulative effect could be felt. -- Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce the 4.4.0 release of Parrot "Banana Fanna Fo Ferret". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 4.4.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/stable/4.4.0/), 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 r</pre> Andrew Whitworth 2012-05-16T00:37:06 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce